two network cards

[Paul Sherwin]

At 06:22 13/03/99 +1100, you wrote:
>
>hello, I am wondering if there is an advantage to running two network
>cards on the same network (physical and logical).
>It seems to me that 2 10mbs cards will be able to get 2x the information
>to the machine in the same time. This would show an improvement if the
>processor,disk,io devices etc were having to wait on the network
>connection (ie the network is the bottleneck).  IS THIS TRUE? or am i
>just being nieve.

You can only get 10Mb/sec on the wire! The only way you could get any
benefit from 2 cards on 1 computer is if they were linked to separate ports
of a switching hub and talking to different ethernet segments. Otherwise,
the only solution is to upgrade to 100Mb Ethernet.

Best regards, Paul

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