From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jul 27 9:46: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A3037B406; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:46:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f6RGk2M59279; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:46:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46DBC380B; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:46:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Julian Elischer , "Eugene L. Vorokov" , Soren Kristensen , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why two cards on the same segment... In-Reply-To: <3B610E69.74C105AB@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:46:02 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010727164602.46DBC380B@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > [..] > > > > > At a guess, he's attempting to implement VRRP, which requires > > > that the virtual interface have a differen MAC address, > > > > Dont guess, ask. > > He said he needed it for testing. > > Personally, I need it for VRRP, and to compete with NT, which > tests file server configurations with 4 cards with interrupts > vectored, one each, to each of 4 CPUs, and tends to kick both > Linux and FreeBSD's butts. Have you seen Bill Paul's FEC stuff? It works very nicely, but using the cisco Fast EtherChannel instead of VRRP. While it isn't the same, we have used it with four interfaces merged into one virtual interface quite happily. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message