>Is it possible to have the outgoing load balanced over the two external
interfaces? It would seem plausible, since we're going out to a switch,
>and we would have 2 cards 10mbit each, totalling a theoretical 20mbit
>connection to a 100mbit uplink.
Why don't you just get a Fast Ethernet card for $40 and save yourself
the waste of a port on your switch?
If the switch doesn't have multiple 100Mb/s ports, why don't you
enable Full Duplex on both the switch port and the upstream NIC card
(if its not an option, replace the NIC with one that does
support Full Duplex).
Regardless, the combination of multiple NIC cards for a faster
virtual connection is possible but I've never heard of it done
on Linux. Cisco's version is called EtherChannel on Cisco
Switches and it is proprietary to Cisco. Linux does this over
modem lines with EQL though it will only work to other remote
Linux boxes and/or Livingston Portmasters.
>Even if it isn't natural load balancing, is there a way to have all traffic
>of say, web type, go over one nic, and all quake traffic go over another?
Sure.. put different IP addresses on each NIC and change DNS to
let WWW traffic to goto one NIC and sendmail to the other.
>Or is this method fundamentally flawed by something simple that I'm
>missing? If ipfwadm can't do this, I'm sure someone knows of something like
>this that will get the job done.. :) Thanks a bunch..
This has nothing to do with IPFWADM. Its just routing basics.
--David
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