OpenBSD 3.8 for interface aggregation (adding bandwidth)
Hello :)
I'm currently testing OpenBSD 3.8 with a customized firmware I did from this: http://www.nmedia.net/~chris/soekris/ OpenBSD 3.8 has a new and excelent feature called "trunk" interface, which allows aggregation of several interfaces. For example, you can have a PC connected to your regular internet provider, say a cable modem or DSL, and a secondary interface that could very well be a wireless card connnected to some WiFi Access Point, and all you have to do is create a "trunk" interface and add both ethernet connections (your cable and your WiFi connection), and the operating system will treat both as a single interface by multiplexing the data through both interfaces in a roundrobin or failover fashion. So if your cable connection is say 3Mbps, and your WiFi connection is 1Mbit, your throughoutput will be aggregated for a bandwidth of ~4Mbps :D Just think of the possibilities :cool: More information here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005...enbsd_3_8.html -kwag |
Re: OpenBSD 3.8 for interface aggregation (adding bandwidth)
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Maybe a tutor would help explaining how to do it along with VMWare.
WINK tutor could be the way to go :idea:. But plain text would already sufice. Looking forward to hearing more about this :D. Cheers |
Hi Rui,
I'll post more information when I get the damn "trunk" to work :twisted: I think I need to get OpenBSD "Current", because the trunk interface in the -release and -stable branch don't seem to work correctly. I can't get it to work. I've E-Mailed the developer and asked him if I must update to the current branch, or if it's me screwing up :lol: Other than that, OpenBSD seems to work rock solid as a regular access point :) (Current uptime at a Soekris at work: 26 days ) -kwag |
In the mean time, take a look at this excelent tutorial on flashdist :cool:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004...y_Daemons.html Edit: BTW, I got load balancing with this, until I figure out the "trunk" device: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html -kwag |
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