Yet another topic of Dual Ethernet ports...

[mitchhamlin]

Getting my RMA'd ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus soon, and i was curious if you could make one port designated to use outgoing 'bandwidth' and one post to designate as incoming 'bandwidth'. I heard it's possible with the right software and such... But you can never believe rumors!

Thanks!

 

[jlazzaro]

in a soho environment, it's pointless. stick with a single NIC...

 

[Nothinman]

You can bond ports if you have a managed switch that supports it but it would only be of any benefit locally.

 

[spidey07]

The biggest question is...

WHY!!!???

There just isn't any good reason to do this. NICs are full duplex and they can send and receive at the same time at 1000 or 100 megabits a second, in both directions.

 

[mooseracing]

Originally posted by: spidey07
The biggest question is...

WHY!!!???

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I wouldn't do like OP asked but bonding to me is a why not question.

Of course this applies to multiple servers and in a Work enviro. No reason in a SOHO like stated

 

[JackMDS]

Two NICs - http://www.ezlan.net/faq.html#2nics

 

[mooseracing]

That response is kind of outdated or being over zelous. It doesn't take thousands of dollars to do bonding/aggregrating. Our switch brand new with fiber uplinks can handle it and was under 800. Granted there are better ones out there and there are also cheaper ones or possible used ones.

The "special" teaming software is built into the driver package for Intel, Broadcom is avavible to download from their site. No extra cost for either. And like it's been stated before bonding two 1Gb connections may only net 80% on a clear sunny day of 2Gbs. If you truly needed that connection 10Gb is alot better, and lightens your wallet better.

 

[JackMDS]

On the other hand it seems to be clear were the OP is coming from, and the answers were related to his given mellu.