Binding NICs

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Aug 17 01:42:19 UTC 2006


In the last episode (Aug 16), Derrick T. Woolworth said:
> Is there currently any way to bind three network interfaces to a
> single IP address?  With our NetApp (yeah, I realize its a whole
> different animal, but still), we can use the vif interface or virtual
> interface to increase bandwidth to the device.  I've looked at carp
> and bridging and I don't think these are going to do what I'm wanting
> - just wondering if there's some command I'm not familiar with to
> bind network interfaces so they load-balance...

Try ng_fec or ng_one2many.  Make sure you configure trunking on
whatever switch you attach the ports too, also.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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