Re: single cable dual nic?

2011-04-25 Thread Jim Green
On 25 April 2011 13:19, Jim Green wrote: > On 25 April 2011 09:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Jim Green wrote: >>> I have a asus p8p67 deluxe board and it has two nics and two ports, I >>> am thinking of bonding them to one nic, but I only have one cable so >>> wil

Re: single cable dual nic?

2011-04-25 Thread Jim Green
On 25 April 2011 09:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Jim Green wrote: >> I have a asus p8p67 deluxe board and it has two nics and two ports, I >> am thinking of bonding them to one nic, but I only have one cable so >> will only use one port. Will this do much help to t

Re: single cable dual nic?

2011-04-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, shawn wilson wrote: > Can this even be done on a dumb switch? I remember there were quite a few No. The switch needs to support LACP for auto-configuring bonded links. You might even find an unmanaged switch capable of such, but it won't be a dumb switch by any means. Your b

Re: single cable dual nic?

2011-04-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Jim Green wrote: > I have a asus p8p67 deluxe board and it has two nics and two ports, I > am thinking of bonding them to one nic, but I only have one cable so > will only use one port. Will this do much help to the > throughput/speed? If I have two cables connecting to both po

Re: single cable dual nic?

2011-04-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 25, 2011 7:25 AM, "Camaleón" wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:29:55 -0400, Jim Green wrote: > > > I have a asus p8p67 deluxe board and it has two nics and two ports, I am > > thinking of bonding them to one nic, but I only have one cable so will > > only use one port. Will this do much hel

Re: single cable dual nic?

2011-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:29:55 -0400, Jim Green wrote: > I have a asus p8p67 deluxe board and it has two nics and two ports, I am > thinking of bonding them to one nic, but I only have one cable so will > only use one port. Will this do much help to the throughput/speed? If I > have two cables conne

single cable dual nic?

2011-04-24 Thread Jim Green
Hi: I have a asus p8p67 deluxe board and it has two nics and two ports, I am thinking of bonding them to one nic, but I only have one cable so will only use one port. Will this do much help to the throughput/speed? If I have two cables connecting to both ports I think it will definitely help, but h