Aside from the obvious that the workstation will need multiple NICs and switch ports, make sure the NICs have a teaming capable driver/software. You usually won't see this except on server nics though.
In general, teaming will allow bonding on outbound traffic without needing anything to happen on the switch. If you want inbound traffic bonding, you'll need to set that up on the switch as well. -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Net port bonding Hi chaps, We have a client whose workers do mainly cad based rendering and shovel massive files around the network (TB files aren't uncommon). Certain workers need more network throughput than their aging gigabit network can offer them. The options appear to be fibre, though for workstations, and just a handful, this seems to involved a large setup cost and may be overkill, and also bonding of ports. I like the last idea as it would allow certain workstations to bond multiple GB network ports together to get more throughput. Has anyone else done anything similar to this on the workstation end? Any words of wisdom ? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
