From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ivan A. Beveridge" Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 22:07:42 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] bonding & vlan - kernel 2.4.18 (RHL7.3) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.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 -- Ivan Beveridge _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/