nic aggregation/teaming (AFT or similar)

joseph kacmarcik freebsd-questions at chubbo.net
Thu Jan 6 16:28:53 PST 2005


> Has there been any developments with this? We are using AFT with dual
> intel nics for switch redundancy on Linux boxes. I really want to try
> and move to FreeBSD, and this is the only major issue that I can see.

if you're looking for single-path redundancy and not increased throughput, you
could use CARP (patches are here: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/CARP/).

the patches apply cleanly to 5.x, and seem to work just fine. if you need more
information, check the list archives.

good luck!
joe


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