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

[weasels-of-fire.livejournal.com]

That made absolutely no linguistic sense to me either. But then again, I can't comprehend a sentence that doesn't make myriad references to pigs, pig products, pig consumption and pig scrubbers in it.

[thorfinn]

He's got a big pig feed and shit transport machine, and he wants to plug the machine into the same pig four times, in order to improve the feed/shit transport rate. This is because that is the uberpig that all the other little piggies around like to suck on its crap all the time. So, it's a matter of installing some extra orificies in the big piggie, plugging all the tubes into the machine, then tweaking the right stuff in the big piggie to make it do stuff along all the tubes, instead of just one. There. That better?

[weasels-of-fire.livejournal.com]

Infinitely more coherent, thank you. It's like I've woken up from a coma and the technological world is transpired with the Divine Porcine. :P