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SubjectRe: 2 Ether cards for more bandwidth?
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> The advantage of having two ethernets in parallel and say using the "EQL" 
> driver on it is redundancy. You can get 20Mbit out of the setup (if all
> your hosts have it), and if for some reason the link is broken you drop
> to 10Mbit as opposed to losing the entire network.

EQL is a bit _too_ intelligent for the job. Also because our drivers don't
do good dead-link detection (and some cards can do it well) there isnt the
info to cleanly drop an ethernet on a fault.

Alan



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