From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 19:27:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05230 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05222 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:27:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au) From: Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA28902 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:26:18 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.21) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma028892; Fri, 15 Jan 99 14:26:04 +1100 Received: by noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.2 (693.3 8-11-1998)) id 4A2566FA.0018654E ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:26:27 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IP_AUSTRALIA To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <4A2566FA.00186530.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:23:09 +1000 Subject: Trunking (multiple NICsin the host) for FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing to say that the December edition of "Data Communications" Asia Pacific edition carried about trunking (in which a host can be connected to a switch by multiple ethernet interfaces and - like in multi-link PPP - packets to and from the host can travel on anyone of the interfaces. The client sees the same MAC/IP address as with one link but the servers throughput is doubled trebled etc. The aricle stated that FreeBSD (first time I've seen it mentioned in this magazine) was supported by Intel and Phobos and perhaps one other (Adaptec ?) maker of trunking NICs & or software. It suggested to me that the Intel FX10/100B cards would work with the vendor supplied software. How does on enable trunking in FreeBSD ? Thank you, Yours sincerely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message