Re: 2 Ether cards for more bandwidth?

Yuri Per (yuri@pts.mipt.ru)
Wed, 22 May 1996 09:37:51 +0300 (GMT+0300)

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Derrik Pates asks:
> Is it possible to put 2 Ethernet cards in one Linux box to increase
> bandwidth? I'm not talking about bridging or firewalling, but 2 netcards
> on the same machine and same network, to provide double effective
> bandwidth. Is it possible?

On the Ethernet only one card can send packets at the same time,
so your two Ethernet cards will never work simultaneously and
network speed will not be increased.

Yuri Per (yuri@pts.mipt.ru)

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