From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 15:22:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6BC16A400 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nullpt@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688A113C474 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nullpt@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so922040ugh for ; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:22:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=O4vLKoBv3blyL91KpJVq9R7J7uh3vsJAk+pDMDAlV43z7+USylIbntbm7miPZf1xTe0rDdCjcRo+vzHSH5OO5hhUWCCTFFP9D5TlNo/Ycz/jZRNy8/Suji0rs6JXYyRE9yf4ZxgoA1URJPK1hBUg6ea72w6KKxCjww/hHHkUJMk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=YT6pD+lS6IfRQgt/DG/7P0V8hFH+vv49jHqxOMUfxorfk4j5wgwmkgHdEJXGHrq3WDwA+SbMLgb7VZUqucD9NZ2y7zX1Qyrg3kebgXHy8oc2Xh+Qmfp+kkGuxyNpauiNu25NAFAcns3dZ8lNnArwfowYqW2TdbLg7hIcyrPYgLc= Received: by 10.67.100.17 with SMTP id c17mr7108828ugm.1173365766138; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:56:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.237.17 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 06:56:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <755cb9fc0703080656o707bb9agc5c20f1bdd294419@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:56:06 +0000 From: "Alexandre Vieira" To: "Nikos Vassiliadis" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200703081510.26432.nvass@teledomenet.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <45EFFB97.30602@esiee.fr> <200703081422.05419.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <45F0025F.7090803@esiee.fr> <200703081510.26432.nvass@teledomenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Two ethernet one IP load balancing ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:22:32 -0000 On 3/8/07, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > On Thursday 08 March 2007 14:32, Frank Bonnet wrote: > > Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > > > > > > > Why do you think that the network is the bottleneck > > > in your setup? Do you have a system that can process > > > - in some way - 1Gb of email per second? > > > > That is not ONLY smtp traffic we extensively use IMAP > > and there are currently 400/500 IMAP processes on the > > machine , this protocol is a pretty bandwidth cruncher > > > > the machine support also POP3 + WEBMAIL traffic so ... > > the more it will have bandwidth, better will be the > > email service given to my users. > > You say that your servers (whatever that is IMAP, SMTP, > POP3, web) running on an one and only computer are pushing > down the wire over 1Gbps? > > What's your current bandwidth utilization? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The freebsd port channeling support (I think it's called trunk in openbsd) is very limited. You have ng_one2many which let you aggregate two interfaces using round robin loadbalancing and ng_fec with uses fast ethernet channel. There isn't any LACP support yet :| What hardware do you use to push 1gbps on a mail server? Cheers -- Alexandre Vieira - nullpt@gmail.com