Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Needing load balancing information.

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 16:46:08 +0200

On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:13:35AM +0300, Petko Manolov wrote:
> dvt@dee.hcmut.edu.vn wrote:
> >
> > Do you tell me how to balance load between ppp connections or ethernet
> > cards? Or where can I find guides about them?
>
> This mail should carry "offtopic" prefix in subject field.

Maybe not..

> AFAIK you can't balancing between ethernet cards. In ppp

There's something called Ethernet channel bonding which was developed
by the Beowulfers. It doesn't seem to have made it into 2.3.15, so I
guess it missed the 2.4 deadline.

See http://www.beowulf.org/software/software.html (which doesn't contain a
link to the patch for some reason. Ah well.)

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson


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