Re: Multi-Port adapters under Linux

[Charles Menzes <charles@lunarmedia.net>]

Try looking up channelling or bonding. At my old job the unix group did 
this regularly with our switches. Sun/RedHat seemed to sync up well with 
Cisco's fastether-channel.
A quick google search shows this that looks to be a promising start:

http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/patch/patch-2.4.15-pre1/linux/drivers/net/bonding.c.html


On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Tim Grossner wrote:

> Bonding is probably the best fit. I just want to have more thoroghput to 
> the server.
> 
> What will I need to do to do the bonding?
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 02:44:18PM -0500, Tim Grossner wrote:
> > > Does anyone have any experience with doing multiple IP interfaces on one 
> > > server, and doing DNS load balancing? (or any other kind of load balancing 
> > > for that matter)
> > 
> > I'm not quite following you.  What exactly are you trying to
> > accomplish?
> > 
> > What you describe only (sort of) makes sense if the server is
> > connected to two different Internet connections.  If the box is on a
> > LAN, you want to use bonding/trunking.
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> 
> 


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