Re: [LARTC] bonding & vlan - kernel 2.4.18 (RHL7.3)

["Ivan A. Beveridge" <ivan@dreamtime.org>]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:20:51AM -0700, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> With Intel cards use the e100 driver instead. Also Intel has another
> piece of software called IANS. Intel Advanced Networking System.
> It will allow you to use up to 8 Intel cards as one, or do load
> balancing, and etc.Up to 8 ethernet interfaces can be grouped together.
> It's assume.
> 
> I use a dual nic with a Cisco switch, and I am able to send out one
> interface and receive in the other. Although that config relies on my
> switch just as much as the IANS driver. Load balancing does not.

Hrm - wouldn't it be better to bond them both and use full-duplex to get 
200Mbps each way? Just curious :)

[further stuff about e100 & IANS]

Thanks for that _very_ comprehansive help - I'll have a look at that lot :^)

However, I'm looking to use a dual gig card (something like a SysKonnect 
SK-9844), with the ports bonded, and then running vlans over the resulting 
bonded channel.

http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/products/b0101_ethernet_9844.html

WRT channel bonding, I was using ifenslave (using redhat's ifcfg- scripts 
and the bonding module), although I see there is an 'ethernet link 
aggregation' (802.3ad) driver, which the syskonnect help seems to point to:
	http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~yumo/#veth
I've no idea what the difference is between this and bonding.

Anyway (hopefully not pushing my luck too much here :) anyone used the 
syskonnect with some kind of channel bonding/aggregation and vlans?

Cheers


Ivan
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