Load-balancing IP interfaces - another brainstorm

[Bryan Pizzuti]

Ok, all I've been able to find so far is references to 2.4 kernel patches
about it, and a mini HOWTO.  Is it built in to the 2.6 kernel? 

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[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Tim Schmidt
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 6:53 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Load-balancing IP interfaces - another brainstorm

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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