From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 16:50:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22A916A404; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:50:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daldworth@teliax.com) Received: from rockynet.com (rockynet.com [206.168.222.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0CE13C467; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:50:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daldworth@teliax.com) Received: from dcalaptop [208.139.193.162] by rockynet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.15) id ABEB6BE00B2; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:38:03 -0700 From: "David Aldworth" To: "'Alexandre Vieira'" , "'Nikos Vassiliadis'" , , Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:37:58 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 In-Reply-To: <755cb9fc0703080656o707bb9agc5c20f1bdd294419@mail.gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Thread-Index: AcdhlaiZMg/aw9Y9Tqyc015fmaM8EQAClBqw Message-Id: <20070308093846.SM01760@dcalaptop> Cc: Subject: RE: Two ethernet one IP load balancing ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:50:45 -0000 If you want to put a freebsd/openbsd router in front of multiple machines we've seen some success in the past using pf + carp. David -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre Vieira Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:56 AM To: Nikos Vassiliadis; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two ethernet one IP load balancing ? On 3/8/07, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > On Thursday 08 March 2007 14:32, Frank Bonnet wrote: > > Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > > > > > > > Why do you think that the network is the bottleneck > > > in your setup? Do you have a system that can process > > > - in some way - 1Gb of email per second? > > > > That is not ONLY smtp traffic we extensively use IMAP > > and there are currently 400/500 IMAP processes on the > > machine , this protocol is a pretty bandwidth cruncher > > > > the machine support also POP3 + WEBMAIL traffic so ... > > the more it will have bandwidth, better will be the > > email service given to my users. > > You say that your servers (whatever that is IMAP, SMTP, > POP3, web) running on an one and only computer are pushing > down the wire over 1Gbps? > > What's your current bandwidth utilization? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The freebsd port channeling support (I think it's called trunk in openbsd) is very limited. You have ng_one2many which let you aggregate two interfaces using round robin loadbalancing and ng_fec with uses fast ethernet channel. There isn't any LACP support yet :| What hardware do you use to push 1gbps on a mail server? Cheers -- Alexandre Vieira - nullpt@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"