Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:26:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "Schmalzbauer, Harald" <H.Schmalzbauer@belenus.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to double bandwith Message-ID: <20000919102636.A8614@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <B14AF62CDA08D4118B8C00508B44A0B5154DAE@server02.belenus.com>; from "Schmalzbauer, Harald" on Tue Sep 19 08:01:33 GMT 2000 References: <B14AF62CDA08D4118B8C00508B44A0B5154DAE@server02.belenus.com>
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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
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