<BLOCKQUOTE> Bonding driver support BONDING
Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 'Trunking' by Sun, and 'Bonding' in Linux.
If you have two Ethernet connections to some other computer, you can make them behave like one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar Bonding Linux driver, a Cisco 5500 switch or a SunTrunking SunSoft driver.
This is similar to the EQL driver, but it merges Ethernet segments instead of serial lines.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called bonding. </BLOCKQUOTE>
Good luck & let us know if you get this working, Conway S. Smith
James Miller wrote:
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.
Thanks, James
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