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Date: 09 Jan 1997 20:53:00 +0100
From: mschmidt@me-tech.PFM-Mainz.de (Michael Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
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Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system?
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In article <5b05fe$4aj@innocence.interface-business.de>
j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
wrote:
> mschmidt@me-tech.PFM-Mainz.de (Michael Schmidt) wrote:
> > Well, to put it a bit concisely, the background of my question has to do
> > with a comparison of the subject (related to BSD systems) with an other
> > operating system (QNX, also allowing several networking cards in it with
> > load balancing)...
>
> What do you mean by `load balancing'? Use two NICs with the same IP
> address (on different wires, i suppose)? That's not possible with BSD.
With load balancing I mean that the drivers or administering processes of the
system (FLEET in QNX) check which networking card is under more load than the
other ones and then balance the load and distribute the network traffic among
the networking cards, at least as far as I recall (to be sure you may ask
info@qnx.com or personally danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand, research/development
at QSSL as the manufacturers of QNX)).
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