pedro-
Oh yes there si a solution and I personally love showing it off to all Windoze
centric buddys cus' it is a pain if even possible to do with windows. Channel bonding(
sometimes called agregated/trunking/ramping/etc,etc) is Ideal for this particular
problem, best of all teh linux kernel can do it with out any addons and standard nics.
The one real issue is wether or not your switch will handle it. It does take a better
than bargain basement model to does this. If your switch can, then check in the
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt for the details to set it up.
A second more painful option, but should work on most setups is to dual-home
the server and use two ips for the server. In dhcp is there is an option to
"load-balance" between 2(exactly 2) servers
(http://theseus.sourceforge.net/projects/ets/supplemental.html#DHCP_Load_Balancing_Optimization
for details). Treat teh tow server ips as seperate servers to give a false appearance
of two servers and balance the clients between the two nics (this only good on a
switch) or possibly smarter if you expect heavy internet use is to install a dedicated
nic for the clients and a second one for the rest of the network(again this only works
on switches), this probably a good idea any tine you have an LTSP server that is
expecting lots of traffic from things other than the clients such as internet,NFS
mounted dir. and the like.
Evan
n Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:57:09 -0800 (PST)
pedro noticioso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is there a solution to this problem?
> Could it be using parallell switches, or actually separating the servers into
>smaller networks and link them through another nic for the smaller services like file
>and printer sharing? Is it possible for Linux to have more NICs installed to have
>more cables linked directly to the switch? Just last week a friend showed me an old
>compaq NIC with 2 jacks, but he told me that it needed a special switch, are we past
>that? may Linux use regular hardware for this purpose? I think it should 8/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:If you have a alot of heavy traffic going to the server(
>switch or no switch the Server only has one nic) you can get collision problems
>cuasing a slow boot. I have had this paticular problem in the past.
>
>
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