[Veritas-bu] Is a dual nic config possible?
2003-11-17 13:57:39
> I am running NBU 4.5GA on windows 2000 sp4 with a 1 gig nic and SDLT320
> Drives. I have a Linux server with two 100meg nic cards but only one is
> enabled. My current throughput during a backup is 7400KB/s. I'm not
> sure if I can squeeze a higher speed with the current nic or if the
> second nic can be enabled to increase throughput. Any thoughts?
> =20
>
> Regards,
> Darby Moses
> Operations=20
> Leviton Mfg.
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>
If you want to use both NICs at the same time for a single job, you'll
need to use bonding to create one ~200Mb/s virtual interface. See
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt. The switch will
have to support this as well.
--
Larry Kingery
And what was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread?
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