From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jun 24 17: 6:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5013237B414 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [210.49.75.34] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AB6169.63.5324aadf) with ESMTP id ijufaaaa for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:06:33 +1000 Message-ID: <3D17B3EB.2010403@quake.com.au> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:06:03 +1000 From: Kal Torak Organization: Quake Networking User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Samplonius Cc: FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: Good dual port NICs? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tom Samplonius wrote: > > All of these cards use the ports as separate interfaces. The load > balancing and redundancy features are provided by the driver only. And > the FreeBSD driver has no such support and will only let you use the ports > as separate interfaces. > > However, I believe there is work on generic support for 802.3ad (link > aggregation). Ahh ok, so its not actualy a feature of the hardware like they seem to try and make out on the web site.. Quote: "The DFE-570TX works like a single network adapter being replaced with an array of 4 adapters. The server sees one logical interface to the network. DFE-570TX provides both dynamic failover and load balancing." The server actualy see's 4 logical interfaces and the software tricks it into seeing it as 1... Well it would be nice to have the fbsd drivers get that sort of functionality but for me I just want the extra ports ;) Thanks for clearing that up! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message