Re: NIC Teaming


Subject: Re: NIC Teaming
From: Jason Jeremias (jason@jeremias.net)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 10:52:46 AKST


Grab the latest 2.4 kernel. Extract it in /usr/src/ and read:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt

This explains it all very well, its a bit redhat centric but easy, you
can also look
at /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/bonding.c read the comments in the c
source for
some more info.

-Jason

Brian ThunderEagle wrote:

> Here is something I think would be very helpful for a lot of people. I have
>found this under many different names and will list them all. What I am
>looking to do is tie together for instance 2 network cards thus providing a
>load-balancing solution for a single server. I see this as being helpful in
>a high bandwidth environment such as the AK Frag Fest I am hosting. I also
>beleive that this would make a server with a lower hardware profile work
>much faster on the network. The problem lies here though...how do you set it
>up? I found 1 document online, and it talkes about compiling Kernel support
>for the feature in Linux. The names I have come up with are:
>
> Ethernet Bonding
> Network device bonding
> Port bonding(Which is ISDN based I found)
> NIC Teaming
> And someone else thought it was called 'Trunking'
>
>If anyone has any knowledge on setting up such a feature it would be very
>helpful for me. In Linux or Windows for that matter.
>
> -Brian ThunderEagle
>
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