> However, some people want to have the other NIC connected as well for > redunduncy and additional bandwidth (100Mb per link). A couple of thoughts on this:
1) For redundancy this is probably pointless since you still have several "single points of failure" (the switch, the system bus, etc.) and have actually made the system less reliable by *increasing* the likelihood of a hardware failure by adding additional hardware. A much better solution would be running several servers in a farm to balance the load and provide redundancy. See http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/HighAvailability.html 2) As far as increasing bandwidth this is fairly straight forward using load balancing but can your current system really saturate a full-duplex 100mbs card? Maybe it's time to go fiber! Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting
