[Techtalk] 2 network cards

Helen Katz fhkatzh1 at wicc.weizmann.ac.il
Wed Nov 28 14:22:54 EST 2001


This machine is the server for 26 others in a pc linux farm,
and it is holding the disks of home dirs and /usr/local of all.
Can you tell me , please, how to do load balance by using round robin DNS?
Thanks,
  Helen
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:

> I've only seen this work with cards designed to operate with the same MAC
> address (e.g. a quad Ethernet card). Which is not to say that it can't be
> done with your setup, of course. ;-)
> 
> You may have to load balance by using round robin DNS or something like
> that. What kind of services are running on the machine?
> 
> Jen
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Helen Katz" <fhkatzh1 at wicc.weizmann.ac.il>
> To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:22 AM
> Subject: [Techtalk] 2 network cards
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > We have a server PIII 550 running Linux RH6.1 with a heavy
> > network traffic.
> > We added it a second network card.
> > How can I configure the 2'd card in such way that it will
> > enlarge the bandwith of the network traffic of the1'st card,
> > something similar to ISDN ?
> > Thank you in advance,
> >  Helen
> >
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