Hello, forget it, because if you try Load-Balancing between the two NIC's you will get a very heavy CPU-Load...
To increase the bandwidth and get redunancy you can use a managed CISCO-Switch with two CISCO-Nics which do that by hardware without any CPU-Load. Michelle Am 04:03 02.06.2001 +0800 hat Jason Lim geschrieben: > >Hi, > >I was wondering a few days ago about this... tell me if this is possible >or not. > >We have servers with 2 NICs each. Right now, we usually plug in only one >of the NICs to the switch. > >However, some people want to have the other NIC connected as well for >redunduncy and additional bandwidth (100Mb per link). > >I was thinking that we could do something with routed and /etc/gateways, >but I'm not sure how this would work. We try to run a little "extra" >software on each server as possible (for a whole number of reasons, >including stability). Do you guys have any suggestions? How do you get >this kind of thing set up with as little fuss as possible? > >Sincerely, >Jason > > > > ########## Get the Power of Debian/GNU-Linux ##########
