Hi there. I'm trying to set up a link between a two mini FreeBSD servers of mine using if_lagg in loadbalance mode and two NIC cards in each box. They are also on the same switch. Both machines are the latest 6-stable.
After following some simple instructions in the man page, each machine is configured as follows: Machine 1: rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=8<VLAN_MTU> ether 00:e0:4c:ff:38:7e media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex> status: active lagg: laggdev lagg0 rl1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=8<VLAN_MTU> ether 00:e0:4c:ff:38:7e media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex> status: active lagg: laggdev lagg0 lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:e0:4c:ff:38:7e media: Ethernet autoselect status: active laggproto loadbalance laggport: rl1 flags=4<ACTIVE> laggport: rl0 flags=4<ACTIVE> Machine 2: xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU> inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fea8:da61%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:01:02:a8:da:61 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active lagg: laggdev lagg0 dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=8<VLAN_MTU> inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fea8:da61%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 ether 00:01:02:a8:da:61 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active lagg: laggdev lagg0 lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fea8:da61%lagg0 prefixlen 64 duplicated scopeid 0x4 ether 00:01:02:a8:da:61 media: Ethernet autoselect status: active laggproto loadbalance laggport: dc0 flags=4<ACTIVE> laggport: xl0 flags=4<ACTIVE> Now, while this setup is working, the speeds seem to be terrible! A FTP from machine 1 to machine 2 goes at 4MB/s. Both PCs are 2.4ghz P4s so I doubt the CPU is limiting that. Something which I also noticed was that pinging the machines from a non lagg configured box gave me: PING 192.168.1.6 (192.168.1.6): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.1.6: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.643 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.6: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.712 ms (DUP!) ^C --- 192.168.1.6 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, +2 duplicates, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.474/0.586/0.712/0.096 ms And pinging the boxen from each other gave me: PING 192.168.1.7 (192.168.1.7): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.1.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.460 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.464 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 192.168.1.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.548 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 192.168.1.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.549 ms (DUP!) ^C --- 192.168.1.7 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, +3 duplicates, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.460/0.505/0.549/0.043 ms Any help in solving this would be greatly appreciated! Federico _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"