[plug] using several ethernet cards problem...

[William Kenworthy]

On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 14:06 +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 15:55 +0900, Marcos Raul Carot Collins wrote:
> > Thank you everybody!
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> 
> Either setting up a routed (using subnets or separate network addresses)
> network or binding the interfaces together as a bridge is the way you
> would need to go.
> 
> Ian
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Something I might have missed - why?

4 cards cards may easily have a lower throughput on a typical home
setup.  Unless you are using top end (read expensive) switches able to
deal with bonded connections, and a host designed to deal with PCI bus
saturation and a number of other issues (VERY fast processor, properly
setup software, ...) you are likely to be ... disappointed.

As you have noticed, TCP/IP and ethernet dont make what you are trying
to easy ... for the reason its not designed to do it so in most
scenarios, there is little to gain from it.  There are better ways if
its more throughput you want.

Again, why?

BillK