Is is it possible to double up NIC's as you can w/modems?

[NFS4]

Don't know if it is possible but I was just thinking about this. Is it possible to have two NIC's in a machine and get double the throughput sorta like Shogun?

I ask this b/c I could hook up each NIC's to seperate ports (two recepticles in the modular telephone/cable/network box) in my dorm room once I get back to school.

It prolly wouldn't work but I was just throwing ideas around

 

[Linh]

I hope it's possible, because I have a similar situation in my dorm room also.

 

[BoberFett]

You can if your NIC supports it. Generally you'll only find that in more expensive 3Com, Intel or other high end cards.

Edit: Here you go.

http://www.3com.com/products/nics/3c980cfb.html

http://1http://www.us.buy.com/comp/product.asp?sku=10240549

For $180 you can get 2 NICs that do load balancing.

 

[piku]

You are completley nuts if you need more than 100mbits per second throughoutput.

Thats over 14 megs per second. Most hard drives (not newer ones though) cant even do that!

Plus if you want to achieve those speeds you would need the computer your connecting to to have the same setup.

 

[Xanathar]

Depending on what type of switches they have on the other end it is possible, Ive got some multi port nics in front of me which support load balancing and redundant links as long as the switches can handle it. Intel, Cisco, and some others.

 

[Soccerman]

yea NFS4 I was checking out Adaptec's card selection, you should see the nic's they got in there! there are 4 port NIC's in there. that's some insane stuff!

BTW, if you don't mind, I'd like to ask what this is for? are you connecting a computer to the DSL line, and connecting it to a network?

BTW speeds of 19 megs/second are possible on RAID devices, and some SCSI drives.

EDIT, I reread the question, and it seems you are asking if you can properly configure 2 NIC's (IP address and all). that's a good question, one I personally can't answer, because I haven't tried it.

the NIC's should have no problem if you have enough IRQ's and can get them to use any free ones (if you can't do it automatically of course). now that I think about it, yeah it should be fine, as long as no conflicts occur, you SHOULD be able to configure each like you want.

 

[Xanathar]

Running FTPs from ram drives?

 

[NFS4]

The campus has a T1 line. I was just thinking about it, that's all. And I have an extra NIC laying around.

 

[Soccerman]

updated my last post.

 

[XMan]

<< BTW, if you don't mind, I'd like to ask what this is for? >>



Duh!. Speed - it's a drug, and we're all addicted.

 

[ERJ]

NFS4, the limit is going to be the T1 line. Unless the university has a download speed cap per network port the T1 is going to be the major bottleneck. Heck, a T1 can't even fill a 10bT.

ERJ

P.S. There are some reasons to do it. Servers are one (for more speed / redundancy) but another is with clustering. We are builing a beowulf cluster and are possibly looking at dual network cards to increase the memory to memory transfers for the nodes.

 

[Mark R]

There will only be a potential benefit if you are connecting to 2 seperate networks.

You could conceivably get some benefit by connecting to 2 ports on a switch. Connecting to 2 ports on a hub is, of course, pointless.

You've then got the awkward problem of setting things up so that one NIC is used for communication with certain machines, and the other is used for communication with another set.

 

[piku]

Yeah T-1 is only 1.5mbit. Not even enough for a 10 mbit card...

now maybe if they had like oc-128's or something...