Bandwidth over many interfaces
Michael James
michael at james.st
Tue Nov 26 15:01:10 EST 2002
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 02:24 pm, James McNeill wrote:
> William HeagueHi all.
> Has anyone had any luck spreading network loads over many interfaces to
> increase bandwidth?
You're asking about Port trunking/Link Aggregation according to IEEE 802.3ad
It needs some smarts at the receiving end to put it back together,
like a manageable switch.
Most mainstream networking equipment handles it,
but does it exist in Linux yet?
I'd be interested to hear too...
michaelj
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