Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:34:25 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> To: John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple outbound interface... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103210830350.35237-100000@cody.jharris.com> In-Reply-To: <20010321164044.B15834@office.naver.co.id>
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John Indra wrote: > Hi folks... Hello. > > This is slightly out of topic but it's still networking related, so I take > the chance to ask it in this mailing list. > > I have one FreeBSD box. I plan to plug 3 NICs on it. They will be xl0, xl1, > xl2. All three will get IPs from DHCP server, and it will a private IP > (10.2.x.x). BTW, I plug one cable modem to each NIC. So the rough figure > will be: > > +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ > | The | | The | | The | > | Internet | | Internet | | Internet | > +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ > Cable modem --> | | | > +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ > | xl0 | | xl1 | | xl2 | > | 10.2.210.3 | | 10.2.209.4 | | 10.2.208.5 | > +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ > > +------------------------------------------------+ > | > | > One outbound connection > > The figure pretty much says what I try to make. I want to let the system > knows that xl0, xl1, xl2 are available for outbound connection to the > Internet, and if possible, treat them as one large virtual connection to the > Internet. > You might want to search the mail archives for Bill Paul's post of Fast Ethernet Channel. I think the subject was port aggregation something or other. It is a netgraph module that will pseudo bond ethernet ports together to make 1 connection. It may or may not help you. It depends on how your Ethernet is connected together and such. Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> - Sanitation Engineer, or might as well be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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