Load Balancing two nics

Joshua Ronne Altemoos joshua.altemoos at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 18:26:08 EST 2004


I do not know if you can do this load balanceing dualnics are ussaly
on a motherboard so you can use the PC as a gateway

-- 
Josh
-Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:57:12 -0500, Dennis Ruzeski
<dennisr at corp.kanoodle.com> wrote:
> There's a module to bond 2 ethernet interfaces built into the linux kernel. The only kicker is that it's designed to be used with a switch that supports something similar (Cisco FastEtherChannel or SunTrunking Sunsoft driver).
> 
> --Dennis
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
> Frank Kumro
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 3:48 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Load Balancing two nics
> Importance: Low
> 
> I have dual nics built into my MB and I am transfering alot of files
> to this computer. Fedora Core 3 is whats running on it and I was
> wondering if there is a way to load balance the two nics? Lets say if
> eth0 gets to 50% use then eth1 takes the next 50% and so on. Is this
> possible and if so how?
> 
> --
> Frank
> Shenanigans!!
> 
>



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