If you want to put a freebsd/openbsd router in front of multiple machines we've seen some success in the past using pf + carp.
David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexandre Vieira Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:56 AM To: Nikos Vassiliadis; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two ethernet one IP load balancing ? On 3/8/07, Nikos Vassiliadis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > 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 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"