Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:49:30 -0800 (PST) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Re: network enhancement |
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sun already sells a multi port card that supports trunking i.e. you can combine 4 100baseT cards for 800mbs fullduplex operation but I don't think linux is able to do such a thing yet.... it would be nice though.
--Jauder
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Mark Spencer wrote:
> <LONG VERSION> > Dunno if this can already be done, but this would be cool to do... > Imagine if you will a real life scenerio I saw at a company today: Lots > of machines on one IP subnet all trying to connect to a single server. > The server is on a switch, and the switches are themselves hooked > together. Wouldn't it be neat if: > > You could put say 5 ethernet cards in the server and put one ether card on > each of the switches such that the server still has one IP address, but > does ARP on all the interfaces in such a way that it can talk to each > machine on the switch it belongs to... > > It is, in a sense, an extension of the bridging concept: broadcasts can > go out on one interface (the switches will take care of the rest) but > other packets should go out on the interface which is on the same switch > as the arp that you want to get to... > </LONG VERSION> > > <CONSISE> > The idea would be that if multiple ethernet's share the same IP address > that it properly arp's depending upon which interface an incoming request > came on and sent arp requests on all interfaces with the shared IP. > </CONSISE> > > > Can it already be done? Is it worth doing? > > -Mark > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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