Tony Landells writes:
> I'm trying to set up a multi-ethernet connection between two FreeBSD
> boxes so I can evaluate the performance of some of the network things
> (like IPSec) without bandwidth being an issue:
>
> ------------- -------------
> | Machine A | 10.0.0.1 / fxp0-fxp5 \ 10.0.0.2 | Machine B |
> | |----------< >----------| |
> | | \ (600 Mbps) / | |
> ------------- -------------
>
> It looks like I need to use netgraph to do this, but I'm having trouble
> working out which pieces I need and how to put them together.
>
> I've looked at getting the user-PPP to manage it as multilink PPPoE,
> and I think I've worked out the "server" configuration, but can't
> work out what needs to be done on the client to make the multilink
> connection.
>
> Can anyone help me with this?
An alternative might be to create a new netgraph node that
round-robin's packets across the links. It would be easy
to write and pretty short too, and avoids PPP overhead.
I can help if you're interested.
Hmm... ng_round_robin(4).. might be useful enough to add to
FreeBSD anyway.
-Archie
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