From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Sep 1 08:58:43 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB8FE1A4E3 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2017 08:58:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from mo6-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de (mo6-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de [IPv6:2a01:238:20a:202:5300::8]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.smtp.rzone.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA7CC6805C for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2017 08:58:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1504256320; s=domk; d=laverenz.de; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Language:Content-Type:In-Reply-To: MIME-Version:Date:From:References:To:Subject; bh=Y4Yr7J4huITqtgNihj29vreeBee9Cu9/bIiYwpTdapQ=; b=rICd79QGdGBfZQVYdW9IGFmqc2NC8lGk2812PeV6LfBCd5KtPnGepjrkI+am3+jCoF K/aAt+oZLQXVCTdQPomNPZwzEUJ0L8JA9pQnfWDPwRYaQS4e/fVx5Rm5D4zUlpcLziUk KIFIEOaNsCzAyf4uM2qan5lQQt9fAgZmj9/Ww= X-RZG-AUTH: :OXsBVUypbfpT6qxpIFUXA72d7klbo3z+ohMFzEPVuGIfnPHuAPVejPrabg== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from t450s.molkerei-ammerland.de (pd95b322a.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.91.50.42]) by smtp.strato.de (RZmta 41.4 AUTH) with ESMTPSA id 60b5adt818weewe (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (curve secp521r1 with 521 ECDH bits, eq. 15360 bits RSA)) (Client did not present a certificate) for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2017 10:58:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Fun with HAST and inter-host connections To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <6cc75798-b7f2-b794-faec-8807616fd7f4@fjl.co.uk> <4199b174-63df-a6a8-6e8e-0e7330dd189f@laverenz.de> <59A8201D.5010702@fjl.co.uk> From: Uwe Laverenz Organization: private site Message-ID: <26f53e78-e9e2-d424-fc1d-b0d14b775522@laverenz.de> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 10:58:39 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <59A8201D.5010702@fjl.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 08:58:43 -0000 Hi, Am 31.08.2017 um 16:41 schrieb Frank Leonhardt: > The problem with link aggregation is that you need lots of 1Gb Ethernet > cards and run out PCI slots pretty quickly. Or are you suggesting Not necessarily, you could use PCIe cards with 2 or 4 ports. > multiple targets bound to a particular interface? Not a bad idea, but Yes, multiple networks, one target per network, round robin policy. > The PCIe is also going to be a bottleneck, but I'm ignoring this for now. Are you sure? PCIe 3.0 supports 985MB/s on x1. > What I really want is the fastest way to connect to boxes using IP > (preferably). Then 10Gb/s ethernet would probably be the best option IMHO. cu, Uwe