Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 21:24:29 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Jimbo Bahooli <griffin@blackprojects.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Balancing Outgoing traffic over 2 nics, and niclimitations. Message-ID: <3809416D.2C6C741D@softweyr.com> References: <199910161735.KAA06493@dingo.cdrom.com> <199910161325230440.0DE208AE@207.109.8.249>
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Jimbo Bahooli wrote:
>
> Of course its a switched network with full duplex operation. But now
> that the general answer is that it is not a limitation of the nic card
> I am going to look elsewhere. I was not to sure if it was actually a
> limit myself, its just that I observed it on two different machines.
> They however were not huge powerhouses, one was a p2-450, and one was a
> dual p2 333. Both running real new versions of 3.3-stable.
No possibility of moving to a Gigabit adapter and sticking a Gigabit blade
in your switch?
Another possibility, depending on your switch vendor, may be to query them
about some sort of channel aggregation. They might even be willing to open
their source code -- who knows? Stranger things have happened.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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