Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:14:26 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load balancing routes? Message-ID: <20000901101426.A3707@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1092054504.20000901170657@buz.ch>; from "Gabriel Ambuehl" on Fri Sep 1 17:06:57 GMT 2000 References: <1092054504.20000901170657@buz.ch>
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In the last episode (Sep 01), Gabriel Ambuehl said: > Hello, > I'd like to know whether there's a facility to do Ethernet load > balancing (having two NICs in one machine) in FreeBSD. The background > is that I've got a 512 cable uplink here and getting 1024 would be > way more expensive than having two independent 512 ones. So I'm > really interested if I can get a NAT box to share the load among > those two lines... Ok; you don't want to load balance Ethernet NICs (this implies bonding the two NICs together as one IP/MAC address, also called port trunking or bonding). You want to balance the load across two routers? > Some details about the cablemodems: > Those are 1st(?) generation Com21 models acting merely as some kind of > bridge (routing your ethernetframes over cable into the backbone) and > don't use their own IP nor are they acting as a conventional IP router. If they don't have their own IP, are you assigned a static IP, or what? and what is your default route? > Cablecompany doesn't seem to have an idea which IP is connected to > which modem or which MAC address (as they finally gave up trying to > get traffic data for traffic based billing and now officially offer flat). > The modems itself have got a MAC address, I think (there's atleast a > sticker with one on the ground). I imagine your setup looks like this: +------+ +---+ | | | H +---+ Cablemodem #1 | PC +---+ U | | | | B +---+ Cablemodem #2 +------+ +---+ If not, please draw a picture of your own -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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