Re: Bundling fast ethernets together..

Thomas Davis (tadavis@lbl.gov)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:43:41 -0800

Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Thomas Davis wrote:
>
> > Has anyone does this?
> > http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/729/fec/faste_an.htm
> >
> > I know about bundling several 10 megabits together; I have an
> > application that can use all of the bandwidth it can get (several NFS
> > servers)
>
> This doesn't look to be significantly different from the Beowulf people's
> "Channel bonding" which, I believe can bond any (pair of?) (homogeneous?)
> Linux network devices.
>

that's what I'm asking..

I think I'm going to just hook it up, have the cisco 5500 setup for
bundling/trunking, and see what the heck happens.. (esp. since I will
have another system doing the same thing (a Solaris system))

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