From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 17 01:42:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECBB416A4DE for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:42:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 855BA43D45 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:42:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) id k7H1gH8K052764; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:42:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:42:17 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Derrick T. Woolworth" Message-ID: <20060817014217.GA88424@dan.emsphone.com> References: <10fd06c60608161822n138d565rb5a7e4b54a22e5e1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10fd06c60608161822n138d565rb5a7e4b54a22e5e1@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binding NICs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:42:19 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 16), Derrick T. Woolworth said: > Is there currently any way to bind three network interfaces to a > single IP address? With our NetApp (yeah, I realize its a whole > different animal, but still), we can use the vif interface or virtual > interface to increase bandwidth to the device. I've looked at carp > and bridging and I don't think these are going to do what I'm wanting > - just wondering if there's some command I'm not familiar with to > bind network interfaces so they load-balance... Try ng_fec or ng_one2many. Make sure you configure trunking on whatever switch you attach the ports too, also. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com