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

[David Anselmi]

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