> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jason Taylor wrote: > > > I am new to the Debian world and am working on a new in house system that > > has 2 3com 10/100 PCI NIC's in it. I got the system to find the NIC's okay > > now I am wondering how I configure /etc/init.d/network file to load balance > > between the NIC's. <snip> > I don't think what you are trying to do makes any sense. It seems that you > are trying to connect both NICs to the same Ethernet segment. This, and > your words "load balance" seem to imply that you think that 1 NIC can't > keep up with the traffic load on that Ethernet segment that is destined > for your machine. I think this is mistaken, 1 NIC should easily be able to > keep up with the traffic of the one Ethernet segment to which it is > connected. Second, I'm not aware of any capability within the Linux IP > layer to "load balance" between network interfaces connected to the same > network. This is partly why the addition of the second default route for > eth1 overwrites the default route for eth0. > > I think it might help if you explained what your end goal is. >
Load balancing between NIC's is not necessarily an unknown topic. We have to NICs in our samba server and are trying to find out how to do load balancing. I think that it is indeed possible, although I don't know very much about it. Check out the following info that one of my coworkers found: ----------------------------------------- Patch-to-kernel: Name: load-balancing Version: 5 Kernelver: 2.2.11, 2.3.13 Status: 8 Author: Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Network load-balancing using route multipaths Date: 29-MAR-1999 Descfile-URL: ftp://sliepen.warande.net/pub/eql/load-balancing.desc Download-URL: ftp://sliepen.warande.net/pub/eql/ Manual-URL: ftp://sliepen.warande.net/pub/eql/load-balancing.txt If you have multiple physical network links to another computer, and you want some kind of load balancing, you can now do so. Please note that this only applies to IPv4 traffic, not for IPX, IPv6 or any other protocol (yet). -------------------------------------------- However, like you were saying, I don't think load balancing is worth a hill of beans if your NICs are connected to the same segment. I'm pretty sure you need a router to take advantage of this functionality. Can anyone clarify? =========================================== Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX (817)556-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX (360)397-7952 =========================================== > >
