On Apr 25, 2011 7:25 AM, "Camaleón" <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:29:55 -0400, Jim Green wrote:
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> > I have a asus p8p67 deluxe board and it has two nics and two ports, I am
> > thinking of bonding them to one nic, but I only have one cable so will
> > only use one port. Will this do much help to the throughput/speed? If I
> > have two cables connecting to both ports I think it will definitely
> > help, but here I only be using one cable/one port and two nics bonded to
> > one virtual nic.
>
> You need two cables to make any of the bonding capabilities to be
> effective :-)
>
Can this even be done on a dumb switch? I remember there were quite a few options to get the 'bond' interface to work. But, I figured one way or the other, you needed hardware on the other end to know what the hell you're doing?