It is unclear wether one2many support bundling through VLANs as well.
 Any clues?

- Sten

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 20. mars 2003 14:25
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Equal-cost multipath routing for FreeBSD 4-STABLE?


On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:15:27PM +0200, Andrew Stesin wrote:

> suppose we have FreeBSD box `A' with 3 network interfaces (ip 
> unnumbered or numbered - shouldn't matter). This 3 interfaces form 3 
> parallel IP channels to some single destination `C' (let's think of 
> another FreeBSD box `B' with another 3 interfaces at the other end and 
> `C' being an alias to lo0 of `B' box).
> 
> Than let's consider either 3 equal static routes to `C' set at `A', or 
> OSPF with 3 equal cost routes to `C' from `A'.
> 
> Is it possible to tell kernel to route packets between `A' and `B' in 
> a round-robin way, so that each of 3 channels handle 1/3 of a total 
> consumed bandwidth? Something like "equal-cost multipath" feature of 
> Cisco IOS?

Yes.  See the ng_one2many(4) man page.  You don't need to futz about with aliases to 
lo0 on machine C: just make another ng_one2many cluster there and treat both of them 
as a regular network interfaces.

        Cheers,

        Matthew

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