Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 02:01:12 -0400 From: "Jonathan Fortin" <jfortin@akalink.com> To: "Mikhail Teterin" <mi@misha.privatelabs.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: maxing out the 100Mb TX (full duplex) Message-ID: <002d01c0cedf$76c932e0$0200320a@node00> References: <200104252233.f3PMXHp62268@misha.privatelabs.com>
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Hello, You can do etherchannel on freebsd with ng_one2many. Man it for more information, but briefly, It is used to load balance incoming and outgoing data in a round robin fashion across the interfaces that are added on the "hook". ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mikhail Teterin" <mi@misha.privatelabs.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org>; <luigi@iet.unipi.it>; <net@freebsd.org> Cc: <rmolchon@privatelabs.com>; <jonathan@privatelabs.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 6:33 PM Subject: maxing out the 100Mb TX (full duplex) > Hello! > > In our load tests we seem to be maxing out the 100Mb full duplex network > card (fxp0). > > The machine has two such cards on the motherboard. How can we use both > of them transparently? > > I connected the other one (fxp1) to the switch and enabled bridging: > > sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=fxp0:0,fxp1:1 > sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge=1 > > Both cards are active (fxp1 does not have an IP): > > media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active > > but judging by the throughput and the (non-)blinking lights, still only > the first one (fxp0) is being used... > > Any suggestions? Thanks! > > -mi > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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