Load-balancing IP interfaces - another brainstorm

[Tim Schmidt]

Well...  some of the features you're thinking about can be had with
the 'bonding' kernel driver.  It essentially allows you to bond (go
figure) two interfaces together to achieve double bandwidth.  My
understanding though is that you need to have another computer on the
'other end' with similarly bonded interfaces (or a *very* expensive
switch / router) to get any real benefit.

--tim


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:36:50 -0400, Bryan Pizzuti
<bpizzuti at optonline.net> wrote:
> Ok, get out the umbrella. ;)  My laptop has an internal 54g card...now, I
> ALSO happen to have a D-Link Turbo A/B/G PC card....we know wireless isn't
> the hottest thing for high bandwith and stable connections always
> (especially with all my stupid neighbors with all their "B" routers set at
> the default channel of 6...)...anyway, is there a way to configure Linux to
> use 2 network interfaces at the same time, and basically see them as one,
> using the bandwidth from both and not losing connectivity unless both fail
> at the same time?
> 
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