tech-kern: NIC load balancing

Subject: NIC load balancing
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org, tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l_Halvorsen?= <paalh@unik.no>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/13/2001 15:51:53

Hi!

Some NICs (e.g., 3com 3c985b-sx giga-bit) have support for load balancing
where transmitted data is spread over several NICs to increase outbound
bandwidth.

Does NetBSD have support for this in the current ti-driver?

If so, how do you configure this?

-ph
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