maybe i nee to clarrify i want to connect 2 or more (lets say n) number of network connections from a single server to a single switch and utilise them all for sending data. i understand that recieveing may be limited but sending can use all via some fancy mac spoofing. i also believe that linux (and others) can pretend to be a switch (etherchanel or whatever) and thus have n x 100mbps throughput full duplex
Dean
DaZZa wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Dean Hamstead wrote:
anyone got a link of somewhere to start for port trunking we have all cisco gear on the server farm, and id like to make some server -> switch trunks (gigabit is an option, but seeing as we have lots of free 100mbps ports and multiple unused 100mbs cards. say hello dell servers)
Ideas? Links?
www.cisco.com
Trunking is dead easy on Cisco switches, provided the OS running on the switch is older than something like version 11.
I suspect what you want is not, however, what Cisco calls trunking. "Trunking" in the Cisco world is a means of managing VLAN's - what you want is known as "etherchanneling" or an "etherchannel" - it's also easy to setup from the switch side of things, but I don't know how you'd go at the server end.
DaZZa
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