On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:34:47PM -0400, wes chow wrote: > > > This doesn't exactly answer the question you're asking, but do you know > > about virtual IP addresses? You can assign as many addresses as you > > want to a single card, and achieve with one card what you're trying to > > do with two. > > Yeah, the reason why I want two network cards is because this machine is a > data server. The limiting factor is the 100Mbs bandwidth, so I thought > I'd just plop in another ethernet card. Clients connecting to the machine > would just randomly pick one of the two IP addresses to connect to. If you really want to increase bandwidth like that, have a switch that supports trunking/link-aggregation, and use the bonding driver in linux. I have 3 gigabit ethernet cards bonded together attached to a D-Link switch for high throughput. This then becomes totally oblivious of the IP address, as it appears as a single system, and also adds failover redundancy as a bonus.
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