Re: Aggregate network interfaces

From: Jeremie Le Hen (jeremie_at_le-hen.org)
Date: 08/26/05

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To: Dave+Seddon <dave-dated-1125455574.45eb32@seddon.ca>

    Hi,

    > - Gig cards are cheap.
    > - PCI bus throughput is really bad (like 32MB/s)
    > - 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.

    For the sake of completeness, I would add that OpenBSD has the trunk(4)
    interface which allows to bond multiple network interfaces with
    configurable trunk protocols.

    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4&arch=i386&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current

    Regards, 

    -- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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