On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:14:35AM +0200, Georg Hofstetter wrote: | - the big wish that linux will make use of both NICs to double | the bandwith either using 1 IP ( changing MAC address of the cards | to the same ) - but i dont think its somehow possible
You can do this with the "bonding" driver in the kernel. The kernel source includes a small user-space utility called ifenslave that is used to configure such a device. The bonding driver is compatible with Cisco FastEtherchannel (FEC), which is analogous to Multilink PPP. Some HP ProCurve switches can talk FEC as well. This would let you use two fast ethernet cards to get 200Mb aggregate. Of course, whatever you're connected to must also speak FEC and be properly configured. FEC is not plug-and-play. -James
