<div>On 7/25/06, Les Mikesell <<a href="mailto:les@futuresource.com">les@futuresource.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 08:26 -0700, Huck wrote: > So Jim, > > You just bond two Gig-E NICS, and plug them into two separate physical > switches and say one switch heads off to LAB A(25 thin clients) and the > other to Building B(20 thin clients). > > And you don't have to touch DNS configuration or anything? Bonded NICs have to go to the same switch and will help if the bottleneck is only within the interface to that switch. If you have many clients connected to other ports on the same switch it will probably help. If you have clients distributed across many switches connected with a 1 gig backbone, it won't help as much to give the server a 2 gig uplink to its nearby switch. </blockquote><div> Buy two of these 48 port switches <a href="http://netgear.com/products/details/FS752TS.php">http://netgear.com/products/details/FS752TS.php</a> 48port (100 Mbps) + 4 1000 Mbps aggregate 2 of the 1000Mbps ports into a trunk to the second switch. So you have 2 1000Mbps ports going to the server (bonded). And the other two going to the other switch as a trunk. 96 ports total. They cost $350 USD each at newegg after $50 rebate. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-- Les Mikesell <a href="mailto:les@futuresource.com">les@futuresource.com </a> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn </a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div> -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada Fl_TeacherTool <a href="http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/">http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/</a> C++ GUI tutorial <a href="http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/">http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/ </a>