Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:37:06 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sten_Daniel_S=F8rsdal?= <sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Equal-cost multipath routing for FreeBSD 4-STABLE? Message-ID: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F1F3C6A@exchange.wanglobal.net>
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It is unclear wether one2many support bundling through VLANs as well. Any clues? - Sten -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk]=20 Sent: 20. mars 2003 14:25 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Equal-cost multipath routing for FreeBSD 4-STABLE? On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:15:27PM +0200, Andrew Stesin wrote: > suppose we have FreeBSD box `A' with 3 network interfaces (ip=20 > unnumbered or numbered - shouldn't matter). This 3 interfaces form 3=20 > parallel IP channels to some single destination `C' (let's think of=20 > another FreeBSD box `B' with another 3 interfaces at the other end and = > `C' being an alias to lo0 of `B' box). >=20 > Than let's consider either 3 equal static routes to `C' set at `A', or = > OSPF with 3 equal cost routes to `C' from `A'. >=20 > Is it possible to tell kernel to route packets between `A' and `B' in=20 > a round-robin way, so that each of 3 channels handle 1/3 of a total=20 > consumed bandwidth? Something like "equal-cost multipath" feature of=20 > Cisco IOS? Yes. See the ng_one2many(4) man page. You don't need to futz about = with aliases to lo0 on machine C: just make another ng_one2many cluster = there and treat both of them as a regular network interfaces. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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