Trunking, Etherchannel, link aggregation, etc. They are all generally the same thing under a different name.
Linux should do it quite well without a problem. But the traffic from the Cisco switch will not be balanced if you have a low end switch. Cisco will only do per-mac-address balancing, so with two links to the same device you will get one link unused. BB Alexander Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I think this is called bonding in the linux work > > trunking is the 802.11q (tagging) > > side note you could run trunking on top of bonding ! > > A > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:11:03AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
