On Fri, 14 May 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: > And the next step would be to make the kernel realize that two cards > ifconfig'd with the same MAC address are meant to be bonded together > as one route (lots of switches support this). I have some machines > that I'd love to be able to get 20MB/sec bandwidth between > transparently.
Bill and I discussed this briefly. You want a sort of 'virtual' interface that allows the attachment of other real (or maybe other 'virtual' interfaces) beneath it. This interface implements a number of policies regarding how it routes packets addressed to it. The two distinct policies I can think of at this time are: - channel bonding/trunking - redundant link -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | win...@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
