Re: Multiport NICs and ether channel?

2001-02-16 Thread Christopher E. Brown
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Willis L. Sarka wrote: > Greetings, > > Just a general question or two.. Please point me to a URL or tell me where > to RTFM, or answer back ;-). > > What is the status/condition of using muliport NICs and bonding > them together to form a larger pipe (i.e. a quad channel

Re: Multiport NICs and ether channel?

2001-02-16 Thread Christopher E. Brown
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Willis L. Sarka wrote: Greetings, Just a general question or two.. Please point me to a URL or tell me where to RTFM, or answer back ;-). What is the status/condition of using muliport NICs and bonding them together to form a larger pipe (i.e. a quad channel

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-09 Thread Christopher E. Brown
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Um, what about people running their box as just a VLAN router/firewall? > > That seems to be one of the principle uses so far. Actually, in that case > > both VLAN and IP traffic would come through, so it would be a tie if VLAN > > came first, but

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-09 Thread Christopher E. Brown
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Um, what about people running their box as just a VLAN router/firewall? That seems to be one of the principle uses so far. Actually, in that case both VLAN and IP traffic would come through, so it would be a tie if VLAN came first, but non-vlan

Re: Bonding Driver Questions

2000-09-26 Thread Christopher E. Brown
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Constantine Gavrilov wrote: > Hi, I'd like to use channel bonding driver for high availability. > > Currenly the bonding driver does not detect a dead slave link. When a > slave link dies, it causes lots of network retransmits and the effective > speed of the bonding device

Re: Bonding Driver Questions

2000-09-26 Thread Christopher E. Brown
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Constantine Gavrilov wrote: Hi, I'd like to use channel bonding driver for high availability. Currenly the bonding driver does not detect a dead slave link. When a slave link dies, it causes lots of network retransmits and the effective speed of the bonding device