From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 01:10:53 2006 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 9D60C16A4D0 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:10:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3802143CA8 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:09:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin05-en2 [10.13.10.150]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout04/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id kBE18gHv019158; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:08:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [17.214.13.96] (a17-214-13-96.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin05/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id kBE18ded011030; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:08:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20061214010124.29818.qmail@web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20061214010124.29818.qmail@web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <168E6D20-A6E1-458B-A1A5-80BAFD20598F@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:08:38 -0800 To: "N. Harrington" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does one bond two interfaces together to share bandwidth? 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, 14 Dec 2006 01:10:53 -0000 On Dec 13, 2006, at 5:01 PM, N. Harrington wrote: > I have tried one way, however when I use it I seem to > have an odd broadcast occuring on my switch. Such that > I am seeing incoming traffic hit some other ports on > the switch. Can someone confirm if I am doing it > correctly? Perhaps I have a switch issue? > Do I also need to bond the ports together on the > switch? Yes, the switch would need to support Cisco's FEC protocol if you want to use ng_fec with it. > Sadly the switch they are connected to does > not support port bonding. Does that matter? Yep. In many cases, a single 100Mbs link does just fine, but if you need more bandwidth, you can pick up a gigabit NIC nowadays for not much. Picking up a GB-capable switch is more expensive, but perhaps your existing switch might have one or a couple of GB ports... -- -Chuck