Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 02:51:37 -0500 From: "Jimbo Bahooli" <griffin@blackprojects.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Balancing Outgoing traffic over 2 nics, and nic limitations. Message-ID: <199910160251370480.0B9DA297@207.109.8.249>
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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. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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