From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 07:11:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B20916A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:11:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1D043D1D for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:11:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyh@hhbb.co.uk) Received: from [10.0.0.25] (hedgie1.gotadsl.co.uk [82.133.95.107]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1085C2558AF for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:11:54 +0100 (BST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Andy Holyer Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:11:55 +0100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Subject: Is it worth using both gigabit ether ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:11:58 -0000 I work for a small special-purpose ISP, and right now I'm configuring our main Web/Mail/DNS server. It's a Dell Poweredge 750, 2.4Gb with 1Gig of memory and twp 80 GB drives mirrored using vinum. When I've prepped it up, it's due to go in our rack at Telecity in Docklands. The box came with an Intel twin Gigabit network card, and I'd like to use ng_one2many to load share so that the box uses both ports at once. There doesn't appear to be much about this on the web. My question: is it worth doing? Will a get a better and/or more fault-tolerent performance by doing this? Do I have to do anything clever with DNS or the router (a Cisco 3660) to get requests evenly distributed, or can I rely on sharing outgoing traffic? Thanks in advance for any advice. --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB 08451 260895 x 241