Aggregate network interfaces

[Jeremie Le Hen]

Hi,

> - Gig cards are cheap.
> - PCI bus throughput is really bad (like 32MB/s)
> - There is no easy way to "bond" on FreeBSD, but you can just use multiple 
> IP addresses.  It would be cool to have something like Etherchannel, but 
> that doesn't work.  Solaris has Etherchannel. 

For the sake of completeness, I would add that OpenBSD has the trunk(4)
interface which allows to bond multiple network interfaces with
configurable trunk protocols.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4&arch=i386&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current

Regards,
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Jeremie Le Hen
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