Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (179 mails)

[Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 26 January 2002 10:54 pm, Alex Brett wrote:
[snip]
> linux.  Also, as a side-point - is it possible to tie network cards
> together to provide greater bandwidth by doing load balancing or
> similar?

Are you using  a 10MB LAN?  If you are, then probably the easiest way to fix 
bandwidth problems is to buy a 10/100 switch, and a 100MB card for each 
server.

You can then use the other ports on the switch to geographically/logically 
segment your LAN, so e.g. someone printing a 50 page report across the 
office/classroom doesn't flood the entire building.

I did that here with a ~120 node LAN and it made a big improvement.

>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex Brett
> alex.brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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