Hello from Gregg C Levine How do you figure that the octopus community would get into the act? Certainly if the proper settings, and modules are available for the kernel, it should work. But then again, I'm coming from the PC world, where it works. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Adam Thornton > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Combining OSA cards - increasing the pipe > > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 14:03, David Boyes wrote: > > However, all you're doing is statistically selecting between a number of > > fixed-speed pipes. The actual transmission of the packet occurs at the speed > > of the selected pipe. Your speed increase is only proportional to a > > percentage of the number of links in the bundle due to additional > > transmission opportunities. > > OK. But it *does* help. Some. > > > Packet arrival (and thus path selection) is > > self-similar, not Poisson distributed. Different problem. > > Well, now, that's open to debate. As Bill Bitner would say, "it > depends." But yes, I'll grant that, in general, for most common cases > of Internettish traffic, packet arrival more closely matches a fractal, > self-similar distribution than a Poisson distribution. > > > I wonder if the multilink PPPoE code would work over the s/390 Ethernet > > implementation. That might do the trick. > > Beware. There, there be tentacles. > > Adam
