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Re: [Sheflug] Putting a machine on a network with 2 nics

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From: John Southern <john [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:56:14 +0100
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Hi Brett,

On Wednesday 20 July 2005 10:14, somecoolpc wrote:
> Is it possible to put a machine on a network more than once and share
> both nics bandwidth.  The way i would see it working is :-
>
> Eth0 and Eth1 plugged into the same physical network at 100Mb Full
> Duplex so there is in actuality a 200Mb Full Duplex connection

The term you are after is "Network Bonding".

The ethernet bonding module is ifenslave which uses simple roundrobin 
scheduling to share out the network traffic over NICs to the bond0 device.

John
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