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Date:      Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:43:31 +0200
From:      Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
To:        Dave+Seddon <dave-dated-1125455574.45eb32@seddon.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>
Subject:   Re: Aggregate network interfaces
Message-ID:  <20050826164331.GC659@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
In-Reply-To: <1125023574.72285.TMDA@seddon.ca>
References:  <20050825220248.E9058@kerplunk.tbe.net> <1125023574.72285.TMDA@seddon.ca>

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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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