From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 18 15:34:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 375F9151FC for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA26430; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:32:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199910182232.SAA26430@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:32:09 -0400 To: "Jimbo Bahooli" From: Dennis Subject: Re: Balancing Outgoing traffic over 2 nics, and nic limitations. Cc: isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199910160251370480.0B9DA297@207.109.8.249> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:51 AM 10/16/99 -0500, you wrote: >Hello my FreeBSD friends. > >I have two issues. > >The first is how to balance outbound traffic over 2 nics that are on >the same subnet. Example configuration: > >fxp0: 12.2.2.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 >fxp1: 12.2.2.6 netmask 255.255.255.255 > >router at: 12.2.2.1 > >Currently I have the obvious static route to 12.2.2.1, which locks onto >fxp0 so all outbound traffic flows out over that link. Inbound traffic >balances per ip as I would expect. I hope to find a scalable solution >as I hope to build a server that will utilize 3 nics. > >This configuration is neccessary because by my estimation I have run >into a limit on the intel pro 100 netcards of 6,000 packets/second. >This limit equates to about 30 to 32 megabit/second of web traffic in >our situation. I am wondering if anyone else has noticed this limit? >This limit was hit on 2 very different machines, one with significantly >less power. Any feedback on either of these issues would be >appreciated. nonsense. i've done >15,000 pps with intel cards on 10Mb/s wires. The "limit" will vary depending on the availability of the wire, so you may just have a lot of hoggy devices. Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message