Teaming / Load Sharing of NIC Cards

[Boris Spirialitious]

So is card heating up too much from all this work?
Adding device to bus and adding more software layers
will just make cpu work harder.

Boris

--- Doug Paquette <dcpaq2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I never said it was neccessary. I've just heard
> about
> it and have been told its "suppose" to even out the
> work load on each card so one card isnt doing all
> the
> work, and with me having two cards i thought i would
> see about trying it out.
> 
> Doug
> ----------------------------------------------------
> --- Boris Spirialitious <hardcodeharry at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > --- Doug Paquette <dcpaq2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Group,
> > > 
> > > I have an HP Proliant DL380 G3 and I am
> interested
> > > in
> > > teaming or load sharing (what ever its called)
> my
> > > two
> > > NIC cards that are in my server.
> > > 
> > > I have been reading about this that I am suppose
> > to
> > > find free bsd drivers to make this work???
> > > 
> > > I am interested in doing this, but dont know
> what
> > to
> > > do or where to start, is there anyone who has
> done
> > > this before with my kind of setup (dl380 server
> > and
> > > free bsd O/S) that can either point me in the
> > right
> > > direction, explain to me how to do this, or walk
> > me
> > > through it?
> > 
> > I am curious about why people want this. Are you
> > having problems with your ethernet lines going 
> > down? Is GigE not fast enough for you? It is
> > very strange why this is necessary?
> > 
> > Boris
> > 
> > 
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