Strictly speaking you don't need server or multi-port NICs. The Intel utility that maintains the 802.3ad link aggregation does not care how many ports the card has or whether they are server NICs.
A pair of 1-port Intel 1000baseT desktop cards will be fine. Ben Scott wrote: > If I needed link aggregation, I'd install Intel server NICs in the > computers. They work well with our HP ProCurve switches. Intel has > some NICs with 2 and 4 ports on them; link aggregation is one of the > applications. -- Phil Brutsche [email protected] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
