Re: [Etherboot-users] Bonding two NIC with etherboot?
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From: <ke...@us...> - 2002-03-31 23:55:28
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>I can bond the NIC's on the server that is not a problem. >At boot time there is only one NIC active on the client side. >Does this configuration work, since the server will (or will not) send >packets on both bonded NICs... Or is the bonding module "intelligent" >enough to know that there is only one active (physical) connection >between the two computers? Does a bonded server work with normal single NIC clients? As I understand bonding, it's just a way of paralleling NICs to get more bandwidth for the server; the connections go to the same switch. If bonding is compatible with unmodified clients I don't see that there's a problem. Why don't you give it a try and let us know? |