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SubjectRe: 2 Ether cards for more bandwidth?
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> 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.

well, they could be used in a fashion like ISDN uses channel bundeling,
but this would require *significant* changes to the network code....

note: i don't mean two cards on the same cable, but two cards = two segements
and the target computer would also have to have two card on two seperate
segments. anyway, all you'd get would be 20MBit/sec at max., so if one
wants better network transfeer, why not put in a 100Mbit card ...



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