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Soti Robert <sotir@theol.u-szeged.hu> said:
> I have 2.2.12 kernel RedHat6.1 and SMC9334BDT fast ethernet dual-channel
> PCI network card, it combines the functionality of two separate cards. My
> linux see it as eth0 and eth1. I wont, that my computer communicate
> with double bandwidth. I don't now, what is required to that: kernel
> configuration, extra driver or package, etc. 2 card must have 1 IP
> nummer, linux must 2 card as 1 ethernecard handeln?

Unless both cards are on different physical nets, they will just fight over
the Ether, and you get _less_ throughput as a result. There were patches
(part of Beowulf) that allowed to bind several eth interfaces (on separate
nets) into a super-interface.
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