[lug] Curious Network Question - 2 NICs, 1 Computer, Double Bandwidth

[Chris Brotherton]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 08:23:49AM -0600, David Anselmi wrote:
> Chris Brotherton wrote:
> >I am curious.  In my office we have two ethernet jacks.  Both are 10 Mbps.
> >Since my office is one of the oldest, the rest the building has 100 Mbps
> >connections.  Is it possible for a single computer to act as a router in 
> >the
> >office and combine the two ethernet connections (20 Mbps)?  I have read 
> >that
> >linux requires that the two ethernet connections have different subnets.  
> >I am
> >limited to only one subnet.  
> 
> I haven't done this but Google for linux ethernet bonding.  Here's a 
> page that will give you some more terms to feed in:
> 
> http://linux-ip.net/html/ether-bonding.html
> 
> Seems that what you want only works if the switch end supports it and 
> maybe 10Mbps is too old for that.
> 
> Dave
Thanks.  I wasn't sure what it was called (Ether-bonding).

Chris.