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Date:      Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:02:26 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Dave+Seddon <dave-dated-1125455574.45eb32@seddon.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>
Subject:   Re: Aggregate network interfaces
Message-ID:  <20050826040226.GB28894@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1125023574.72285.TMDA@seddon.ca>
References:  <20050825220248.E9058@kerplunk.tbe.net> <1125023574.72285.TMDA@seddon.ca>

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On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:32:52PM +1000, Dave+Seddon wrote:
> - There is no easy way to "bond" on FreeBSD, but you can just use multiple 
> IP addresses.  It would be cool to have something like Etherchannel, but 
> that doesn't work.  Solaris has Etherchannel. 

FreeBSD has EtherChannel support.  See ng_fec(4).  Etherchannel is of
no use for two hosts talking to each other since the algorithm chooses
a nic based on the pair of hosts.

ng_one2many may also be of interest for some applications.

-- Brooks

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