nic bonding Fedora 8

[Mark Haney]

Steve Repo wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>> Frank Murphy wrote:
>>> Is this included in fedora 8.
>>> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bonding
>>>
>>> Tried yum info */ifenslave
>>>
>>> Frank
>>>
>>>
>> Yeah it's included, I use it all the time between GigE ports on my data
>> servers.
>>
> 
> very cool! I'm planning to do something like this but have a questions.
> 
> Does bonding really use both interfaces for data transfer or use the
> second interface only if the first one is maxed out?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 

AFAIK, it's pretty well load balanced in that it looks and acts like one 
interface.  I believe the algorithm determines which interface is least 
used and sends it from there.



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