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FatBurger   06-12-2001 at 11:57:00 PM

Does anyone here use any sort of unconventional networking methods? For instance, could you install two network cards and have both connected to a switch for better performance? I doubt that'd do anything, but it's just an example.

Apple? Macintosh? What are these strange words you speak?

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Anonymous   06-13-2001 at 08:54:29 AM
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Server NIC's will often have 4 ports on one card to provide higher bandwidth. I worked with a few Sparc boxes that had these.

On the otherhand, a linux file-server I was involved in upgrading had a second NIC installed to increase the bandwidth. There were only 4 machines accessing this server, but it was serving large (>200MB) files possibly to all four machines at once. Two of the clients connected to one NIC on the server while the other two clients connected to the other. This worked great to increase the bandwidth of the server, and the HDD remained on rather than periodically turning on and off with only one NIC.

This is just one example, but having multiple connections to one network is not uncommon on busy servers. The advantage to a workstation would be less noticeable.

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peteb   06-14-2001 at 06:48:05 AM
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This works and is done frequently in Enterprise computing. It provides both fault tolerance and performance. It's called NIC Teaming. Intel pioneered it with Cisco and then everyone jumped on. Good solution for high performance but the number of times a domestic user would need it is about 0.

I have a fairly neat setup at home. I've got a DSL firewall router, linked to a PC in the living room. All in the AV area hooked up to a plasma 42" panel. The PC has a 2nd Wireless NIC (PCMCIA in a 3.5" bay) providing wireless service at 11Mbs for the rest of my appartment. The PC runs 2000 and Internet Sharing.

In the study I then have a wireless base-station and a 10/100 switch with 2 PCs connected in. All PCs can happily surf the 'net and do whatever and I have a good internal network setup, printing etc.

Also, I can use a laptop anywhere in the appartment on the wireless too - no need to hook into anything. Trés funky I think.

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hammerhead   06-15-2001 at 01:04:15 AM
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Bah. I'm jealous.

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peteb   06-15-2001 at 02:54:32 AM
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:cool:

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Anonymous   06-15-2001 at 10:00:57 PM
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Not to mention Trés expensive...

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hammerhead   06-15-2001 at 10:41:19 PM
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Yeah well that's why I'm jealous. If only I could afford it...

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Anonymous   06-16-2001 at 12:39:56 AM
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Network card aggregating (teaming) is getting pretty useless nowadays. Now that Gigabit (1000BT) over copper ethernet cards are starting to show up, it doesn't make sense to use multiple 100Mbit cards in a single server box anymore (though it might be fun to try) If the network needs that redundant link, there should be another entire dedicated server box on a seperate connection anyways...

Intel and 3Com are already selling their gigabit over copper cards. I just got a CD advert from Cisco advertising theirs. Personally I'll wait for linksys or netgear to show up on the shelves.

A pretty good link for info http://www.gigabitsolution.com/

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peteb   06-16-2001 at 06:39:55 AM
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It's not that bad - wireless is pretty cheap nowadays...

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Anonymous   06-18-2001 at 05:36:38 PM
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Here is a really interesting <A HREF="http://arstechnica.com/cpu/2q00/klat2/klat2-1.html" target="_new">article</A> on what's called a Flat Network Neighborhood (FNN) for computational clusters. Complete with AI developed wiring patterns & routing tables!


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FatBurger   06-19-2001 at 11:25:13 PM
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Wow, almost forgot I started this thread.
I'm more interested in other people's ideas than telling me what's good or bad about my example.
But thanks for what I've seen so far.

Apple? Macintosh? What are these strange words you speak?

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