I've got 2 physical ethernet jacks available to me here. I assume each processes traffic independently: I've been online at both simultaneoulsy with 2 different computers, anyway. Since I'll be setting up a firewall/router here (LRP type thing, with an older computer), I was just wondering about the possibilities of combining the two into a single internet connection (should make the connection faster, according to my understanding). The way I could see this happening physically is that each jack has a cable going to a NIC in the router/firewall, which in turn has a NIC that leads to a hub/switch (3 NIC's in the router/firewall). The router/firewall NATs to/from the two jacks to/from the local network. Somehow I recall the term "channel bonding" relative to this, though I don't know if that's really what I'm trying to do. First, I'd just like to ask if, in principle, what I'm thinking about doing is possible (for me-bearing in mind that I can likely get the assistance of a certain 3rd tier Linux-guru-in-training mentioned in an earlier post)? If so, my next question is: in broad terms, how? It would be nice if one of the router/firewall distros can more or less automate this setup for me/us. Input appreciated.
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