Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2 Ether cards for more bandwidth? | Date | Mon, 27 May 1996 21:28:24 +0100 (BST) |
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> The advantage of having two ethernets in parallel and say using the "EQL" > driver on it is redundancy. You can get 20Mbit out of the setup (if all > your hosts have it), and if for some reason the link is broken you drop > to 10Mbit as opposed to losing the entire network.
EQL is a bit _too_ intelligent for the job. Also because our drivers don't do good dead-link detection (and some cards can do it well) there isnt the info to cleanly drop an ethernet on a fault.
Alan
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