From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 19 8:26:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A734D37B42C for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA04373; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:26:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:26:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Schmalzbauer, Harald" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: How to double bandwith Message-ID: <20000919102636.A8614@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.8i In-Reply-To: ; from "Schmalzbauer, Harald" on Tue Sep 19 08:01:33 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 19), Schmalzbauer, Harald said: > my question is about the possibility to double bandwith by adding a > second NIC. Does anybody know how to do this? I thought it should be > possible to create a VLAN on my switch (3com3300) and use this trunk > with the two NICs in my fileserver. But can I assign the same IP to > two different NICs? And how is the load balancing done? I thought I just answered this question :) FreeBSD doesn't support bonding or trunking of Ethernet interfaces. At the moment, the best way to get faster throughput on Ethernet is to install a gigabit card :) Quite a few are supported. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message