Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:28:27 -0500 (EST) From: Hussain Ali <hali@ttsg.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grouping 2 or more interfaces as 1 Message-ID: <20031215081016.C23184-100000@midgard.ttsg.com> In-Reply-To: <200312121407.PAA10760@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com>
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> In theory, yes. In practice, throughput is pretty often limited by PC > architectural issues. Consider, for example, PCI bus speed... Also > consider the overhead of actually distributing traffic between the > physical interfaces... > So i can get 200Mb/s out of 2 interfaces. (Theortically), this would be on the same Vlan with only one of the interfaces having an ip. Back to bridging for a moment. Can a bridge be setup in the same way? (googling mostly says no, bridging is commonly used with firewalls and not to the same switch) -Hussain
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