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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system? Date: 10 Jan 1997 22:10:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5b6eop$o0h@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <6OBfLaMbNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5aqmnv$m5k@innocence.interface-business.de> <5ar8e1$prf@nike.volvo.se> <5ari97$o01@innocence.interface-business.de> <6OVunZMMNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5b05fe$4aj@innocence.interface-business.de> <6OW5ep16NgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:1894 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5572 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33952 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5151 mschmidt@me-tech.PFM-Mainz.de (Michael Schmidt) wrote: > > 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. That's fairly pointless, since the bottleneck is typically the wire, not the NIC, at least for 10 Mbit/s ethernet. No, you can't do this in BSD. Eache interface (network card) needs a distinct IP address. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)