On Dec 8, 2005, at 6:24 AM, matthew sporleder wrote:

> I thought openbsd's CARP could do this and was in pkgsrc.

CARP is a completely different beast from link aggregation.

> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#CARP
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/net/ucarp/README.html
> http://www.ucarp.org/
>
> Although CARP is normally used for failover between servers, I don't
> see why it couldn't be used between nics on a single host.  If not,
> Bonding (linux-esque)/IP MultiPathing (solaris-esque) functionality
> has always seemed a bit lacking in netbsd.
>
> _Matt
>
> On 12/7/05, der Mouse <mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
>> $DAYJOB has a desire to use multiple network interfaces on a single
>> machine, with parallel connections to another device, as if they  
>> were a
>> single interface with a fatter pipe to the peer device - I believe
>> cisco calls this "connection bonding".
>>
>> Is there any support for this in NetBSD?  There wasn't last time I
>> looked/asked, but that was years ago.  (I started on implementing it
>> but got stalled practically immediately.)  I did some poking  
>> around but
>> failed to turn up anything the least bit encouraging.
>>
>> The hard part, I'd guess, would be getting the same MAC address on  
>> all
>> the underlying interfaces.  Is there any generic way implemented  
>> yet to
>> set an interface's MAC address?  I did some searching with man -k,  
>> but
>> didn't turn up anything there either.
>>
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