From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 16 20:35:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from worldclass.jolt.nu (lgh637b.hn-krukan.AC [212.217.139.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475C537B479; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:35:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (c4@localhost) by worldclass.jolt.nu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA43700; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:34:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from c4@worldclass.jolt.nu) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:34:26 +0100 (CET) From: Tobias Fredriksson To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Multiple interfaces on same subnet Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am about to setup a system with 2 diffrent networks and multiple interfaces on atleast one of the isp connections. System specs are at the bottom. Now to my questions. The server will most probably be utilizing 2 Intel PRO/100+ Dual Port Server Adapter all ports being used the system must be able to send 800mbit and recieve 800mbit at a maximum, estimated average is around 200mbit/s, over these two cards alone. These two card will server an "internal" network in our city so input/output rates are very important over these two. The other network adapter which will cover country wide will be an Intel PRO/1000 E Server Adapter, data from all over the country will be sent through this one card and the maximum throughput will ever be 100mbit/s so this shall be more than enough. Will the Intel PRO/100+ Dual Port Server Adapters meet our demands? How do i best configure the system for load-balancing over these two cards? When having multiple interfaces on the same subnet, i have noticed alot of kernel messages like "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is on fxp0". How do i prevent this from happening since this will most probably slow down the server with lots of writes to the logs files and consequently the drives ;) System specs: AMD K7 Thunderbird 800mhz+ 512MB PC133 SDRAM or 768MB PC100 SDRAM Adaptec SCSI Card 39160 (Dual Channel Ultra160 SCSI card supporting 30 devices), is this card supported by FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE? Atleast 4 or 5 Seagate SCSI 68 pin 73400MB Ultra160 (16MB Cache), has anybody used these and can they give me any good reasons why I should use/or not use these. If i shall not use these i will most probably go with 8 or 10 IBM SCSI 68 pin 36700MB Ultra-160 36LZX 2 Intel PRO/100+ Dual Port Server Adapter Intel PRO/1000 E Server Adapter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message