Leeloo Dallas Multilink!

[tyggerjai]

So the lovely BayStack that is the core of the home nyetwork has this cool feature called "multilink trunking". Basically, one can group four ports to talk to a single device at four times the speed of a single port. (theoretically. YMMV, etc.) So. Apparently, linux can be set up with multiple cards to take advantage of this. huzzah! (because I have a few 10/100 cards kicking around.)

Anyone know *how*? Googling for linux + multilink gets me a whole lot of multilink PPP results - not what I want at all.

It seems wasteful to go buy a gigabit switch when I could have 400 Mbs from the main server without it.

{update} ifenslave, apparently, is my friend. huzzah for those clever linux boffins!
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Comments

[strepsil.livejournal.com]

I understood every word. So there.

Speaking of English - you, me, Scrabble Deathmatch. When? :)

[bunnikins.livejournal.com]

We were planning to lure people over for board games instead of frisbee, but not this weekend apparently - sunday after? Or during the week some time? I'm working til stupid o'clock most nights tho...

[strepsil.livejournal.com]

Most weeknights are pretty impossible for me, anyway. Some weekend sometime would work best. If not this Sunday then the next would do. Unless you find yourself bored Saturday night - in which case, call me.

[bunnikins.livejournal.com]

Unless you find yourself bored Saturday night -

Will call you, should such a thing occur. You could come over this Sunday for porkfest, and, er...bring a sandwich? Or is pork also a valuable tofu substitute?