> > You need a switch to do this. If your clients are on the same ethernet as > your server, they can only talk to one MAC address. That means you only get > the bandwidth of one interface. If you have a switch that can bond ports > together, you can use both cards at the same time, transparently to everybody > but the driver and the switch. I know that NetWare supports this, as do some > Bay switch, and surely some Cisco stuff. >
Having 2 ethernet cards with the same mac address on two different ports of all the cisco switches I have used (1100-6500) will confuse the hell out of them :). I've seen it happen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
