On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> My company is looking at buying a 2u server and it comes with
> 2 Intel NICs (eepro, IIRC). I've never dealt with multiple
> NICs in one box before. Since the server will be co-located
> and on the Internet, so there's not a local net for it to
> masquerade for or anything else that you'd normally use two
> NICs for. I can think of one thing that would be useful,
> however: redundancy. Is it possible to set up the NICs in
> such a manner that it's treated as a single
> "double-bandwidth" card?
>
> If not, is there some way we can set it up as a failover
> (though I imagine that if one fails the other would too,
> since they're both on-board)?
>
> Any advise would be appreciated,
>
Buy a hub connect the two NICs to the hub, and buy a router that
uses bandwidth load as a routing metric (cisco proprietarial
protocols?). $$,$$$.$$ :-( --or just be happy with one NIC! :)
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