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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Redirect fec0 to physical NIC
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Shawn Saunders wrote this message on Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:30 -0800:
> I have successfully used add_iface to bond two interfaces to fec0 
> (10/100's).
> 
> I would like to now take fec0 and send it out a physical interface, but 
> when I attempt to either add the fec0 interface, or substitute a real 
> interface and use add_iface of two real interfaces to a third real 
> interface, it says that the "Function is not implemented".  I am using 
> FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p9.
> 
> I don't need to use a virtual interface.  My real goal is to take traffic 
> from multiple incoming physical interfaces, and redirect them (agregate) 
> out another physical interface.  Even if there is traffic loss, that is not 
> a problem.  Just need to know if it can be done.  If so, I can then work on 
> the bandwidth limitations.

Sounds like you want to if_bridge the fec0 interface and the other
physical interface...

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