Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:33:15 -0800 | From | Thomas Davis <> | Subject | Re: Trunking (was: Gigabit Linux Server Bottlenecks) |
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Rui Prior wrote: > > > In v2.2.15pre5, (and newer), there's a device called 'Ethernet > > Bonding'. It does the above, and allows one to bond together mulitple > > (up to 4) devices into one virtual device. > > > > The only problem with this, is most switches still limit your > > performance through this bonded device. It can however, give you a > > 'fatter' pipe, not a 'faster' pipe. > > Where is this option? I couldn't find it on 2.3.xx kernels... >
It's not in 2.3
> There is another means of having something similar to trunking with no need from any > support from the ethernet switch (it needs an ethernet switch, though). > On newer kernels (at least 2.3.xx series) there is support for QoS. One of the > queuing disciplines is sch_teql (true equalizer). If you have more than one ethernet > interface, you may use this queuing discipline to do load-balancing between the > cards. >
I'm not sure that is the same as bonding (we had this discussion before on linux-kernel).
I haven't played with 2.3 and networking, since my test bed needs functions that aren't in 2.3, yet.
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