Re: Known 'issues' about 2.4.19...

Rob Landley (landley@trommello.org)
Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:15:46 -0400

On Sunday 13 October 2002 04:02 pm, DervishD wrote:
> Hi Andreas :)
>
> > > Is there any known bug or other issues about 2.4.19 that prevents
> >
> > Bonding is broken.
>
> Do you refer to NIC bonding? Anyway, I don't know what 'bonding'
> is, just I've heard the word related to NIC O:)))

It lets you use two ethernet cards as a single interface, assuming the switch
they're plugged into supports it. Cheap way to get 200 mbps throughput,
especially with a switch that only does gigabit on the uplink port.

See Documentation/networking/bonding.txt in the kernel tarball...

Rob

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