Subject: Re: connection bonding?
To: Nathan J.Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/08/2005 10:21:16
On Dec 7, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

> der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> writes:
>
>> $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".
>
> The IEEE term is "link aggregation", specified in 802.3ad. I don't
> know if this is the same as Cisco's version or not.
>
>> Is there any support for this in NetBSD?
>
> Nope.

Yes, there is.  See agr(4).

-- thorpej