Does your switch support trunking/pairing/bonding of ports?

http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/bonding.html
http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/question/static/linux-ethernet-bonding-driver-howto.php

I'm sure you could find some distribution specific documentation.

Some notes on this though.  A good professional 1GB nic can push about 
100/MBs.  Often you will run into CPU or HD bottlenecks before you get 
this far unless you've got a pretty decent cpu and  some type of raid hd 
setup.

So, once you trunk two ports together the chances that you'll have 
cpu/hd bottlenecks will greatly increase.  So make sure you check that too.

Jaco wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Would I be able to setup two nic's on my backuppc server to improve 
> network transfer performance to the backuppc server.  I usually have a 
> least two backups running at the same time on this server.  If this 
> would be beneficial, what would be the right way of setting it up?
>
> Thanx,
> Jaco
>
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