Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 11:47:12 +1100 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: configuring a big, fat ethernet pipe Message-ID: <200010040047.LAA23913@tungsten.austclear.com.au>
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Hi, I have two FreeBSD boxes that I want to use to check the impact of various things on network performance (adding IPSec with various encryptions, stripping various bits out of the kernel, ...). The boxes have several network interfaces (fxp0 through fxp5) and so I'm looking for a way to hook the boxes up with something like multilink PPP over Ethernet, or something else that comes out similar to the Cisco concept of an etherchannel. I've been trying to work out how to put the pieces together (configuring netgraph into the kernel, loading the ng_ether module) but I'm stumped with actually setting up the two boxes to hook the multiple PPPoE connections into a single (multilink) PPP connection. Can anybody walk me through this, or give me an alternative solution? It doesn't work (as far as I can see) to just configure six separate links because the routing table only stores the best route so I'll never use more than one connection. Hence my looking at these other solutions... Thanks, Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Systems Manager Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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