From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 1 13:51:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from sn1oexchr01.nextvenue.com (sn1oexchr01.nextvenue.com [63.209.169.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E079737BAAD for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nevans@nextvenue.com) Received: FROM sn1exchmbx.nextvenue.com BY sn1oexchr01.nextvenue.com ; Tue Aug 01 16:49:56 2000 -0400 Received: by sn1exchmbx.nextvenue.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:47:16 -0400 Message-ID: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B33B188@sn1exchmbx.nextvenue.com> From: Nick Evans To: "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" Subject: Teaming Network Interfaces Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:47:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01BFFBF9.AD4B87A0" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFFBF9.AD4B87A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Does anyone know of a project or other plans to implement teaming of network interfaces in FreeBSD? Something that will allow two or more NICs share the "same" IP Address, MAC address, etc. for network fault tolerance purposes? I found nothing in the archives and it's pretty disconcerting that no one is spending any time on fault tolerance for a network operating system. thx nick ------------------------------------------ nick.evans network.engineering NextVenue, Inc. phone: (212) 909.2988 pager: (888) 642.5541 ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFFBF9.AD4B87A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Teaming Network Interfaces

Does anyone know of a project or other plans to = implement teaming of network interfaces in FreeBSD? Something that will = allow two or more NICs share the "same" IP Address, MAC = address, etc. for network fault tolerance purposes? I found nothing in = the archives and it's pretty disconcerting that no one is spending any = time on fault tolerance for a network operating system.

thx
nick

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nick.evans
network.engineering
NextVenue, Inc.
phone: (212) 909.2988
pager: (888) 642.5541

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