Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-29 Thread Andy Sporner
Gary Stanley wrote: Is it possible to split the load of IP traffic with 2 ethernet cards on a 4.x machine? I'm new to load balancing in a sense, however, I'd like to try something that seems more robust I didn't know about the 'fec' adapter (might be a good starting point). I have a

Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible? (Never last post)

2002-04-29 Thread Andy Sporner
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Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-28 Thread Matt
] Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 9:14 AM Subject: Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible? I have tried that fec driver, no luck. I get the interface up, but when I try to transmit packets over it I get invalid argument or something like that, I had the network cards hooked to a Cisco

Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-28 Thread Terry Lambert
Matt wrote: You may try some other kind of load balance and fail safe from www.xgforce.com. It's a layer 3 and layer 7 global clustering software for FreeBSD. Wrong kind of load balancing. The original poster wanted channel bonding, not server load balancing. The layer 3 in the referenced

Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-28 Thread Gary Stanley
At 05:57 PM 4/28/2002 -0700, you wrote: Matt wrote: You may try some other kind of load balance and fail safe from www.xgforce.com. It's a layer 3 and layer 7 global clustering software for FreeBSD. Wrong kind of load balancing. The original poster wanted channel bonding, not server

Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-27 Thread Baldur Gislason
I have tried that fec driver, no luck. I get the interface up, but when I try to transmit packets over it I get invalid argument or something like that, I had the network cards hooked to a Cisco catalyst and I had grouped the ports, and I've tried two types of network cards, 3com 905C and

Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: Gary Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:47 PM Subject: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible? Is it possible to split the load of IP traffic with 2 ethernet cards on a 4.x machine? I'm new to load balancing

Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-27 Thread Olafur Osvaldsson
The FEC works for me doing the following on 4.5-STABLE: # cd /usr/src/sys # tar -zxvf path-to-download/fec.tar.gz # cd modules/netgrah/fec make install # kldload ng_fec.ko # ngctl mkpeer fec dummy fec # ngctl msg fec0: add_iface 'fxp0' # ngctl msg fec0: add_iface 'fxp1' # ngctl msg fec0:

load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-26 Thread Gary Stanley
Is it possible to split the load of IP traffic with 2 ethernet cards on a 4.x machine? I'm new to load balancing in a sense, however, I'd like to try something that seems more robust To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-26 Thread Terry Lambert
Gary Stanley wrote: Is it possible to split the load of IP traffic with 2 ethernet cards on a 4.x machine? I'm new to load balancing in a sense, however, I'd like to try something that seems more robust http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/4.x/ -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL