You have to have the capibility on the switch, and enable it
first.  It is called EtherChannel by Cisco, and it is 2 or 4 ports
that all have the same MAC addr plugged into the switch, and the
switch treats them as one interface.


                        --John


Steve Rubin <s...@tch.org>  wrote:

> >
> > You need a switch to do this.  If your clients are on the same ethernet as
> > your server, they can only talk to one MAC address.  That means you only ge
t
> > the bandwidth of one interface.  If you have a switch that can bond ports
> > together, you can use both cards at the same time, transparently to everybo
dy
> > but the driver and the switch.  I know that NetWare supports this, as do so
me
> > Bay switch, and surely some Cisco stuff.
> >
>
> Having 2 ethernet cards with the same mac address on two different ports
> of all the cisco switches I have used (1100-6500) will confuse the hell
> out of them :).  I've seen it happen.
>
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