Re: 2 Ether cards for more bandwidth?
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 27 May 1996 21:28:24 +0100 (BST)
> The advantage of having two ethernets in parallel and say using the "EQL"
> driver on it is redundancy. You can get 20Mbit out of the setup (if all
> your hosts have it), and if for some reason the link is broken you drop
> to 10Mbit as opposed to losing the entire network.
EQL is a bit _too_ intelligent for the job. Also because our drivers don't
do good dead-link detection (and some cards can do it well) there isnt the
info to cleanly drop an ethernet on a fault.
Alan