Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 May 1996 18:58:15 +0100 (BST) | From | Darren J Moffat <> | Subject | Re: 2 Ether cards for more bandwidth? |
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On Wed, 22 May 1996, Yuri Per wrote:
> Derrik Pates asks: > > Is it possible to put 2 Ethernet cards in one Linux box to increase > > bandwidth? I'm not talking about bridging or firewalling, but 2 netcards > > on the same machine and same network, to provide double effective > > bandwidth. Is it possible? > > On the Ethernet only one card can send packets at the same time, > so your two Ethernet cards will never work simultaneously and > network speed will not be increased.
Unless you actually use to different ethernet spines. eg.
eth0 +----------+---------+-------+-------------- Network A | | | | foo bar baz ding | | | | eth1 +----------+---------+-------+-------------- Network B
This works fine, I've got a setup like this at work.
However I don't think this is what the original poster meant.
-- Darren J Moffat
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