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From: Thomas Mueller <thomas@chaschperli.ch>
To: bridge@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Using 2 Bridges Simultaneously for "Load Balancing"
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:21:33 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ggg91t$jtk$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 492A8A22.1090509@gmxpro.de



> 
> Now I thought it was possible to create to of those bridges, each one
> with one physical NIC. Then I could assign two virtual machines to each
> bridge/NIC in order to balance or distribute the load.

if you just want load balancing/distribute the load on the two NIC's: why 
dont you create a bond (some people/manufacturers  call it also "trunk" 
or "LAG" ) out of physical NIC's and then bridge the bond?

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/bonding.htm

- Thomas



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-25  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-24 11:04 [Bridge] Using 2 Bridges Simultaneously for "Load Balancing" Andre iosT
2008-11-24 11:19 ` Dietmar Maurer
2008-11-24 11:20 ` Dietmar Maurer
2008-11-24 11:25 ` Dietmar Maurer
2008-11-25  7:21 ` Thomas Mueller [this message]
2008-11-25  8:22   ` Andre iosT
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-25  4:37 Andre iosT
2008-11-25  7:30 ` Dietmar Maurer

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