[cobalt-developers] Ethernet Channel Bonding on XTR

["William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A little while back I was inqiring into grouping two ethernet interfaces 
together on a RaQ4r using Intel's IANS, and e100. Due to our migrating 
to a XTR, and XTR not using Intel nics, we decided against IANS.

We were recommended to look into ethernet channel bonding, but from most 
documentation it seems that feature is something only available to 2.4 
kernels, unless you want to add it to an older kernel.

Along our ways we came accross a program called ifenslave which you 
compile from the source code, and makes a copy of one interface to another.

Here's a link
http://www.beowulf.org/software/bonding.html

I have compiled and run the program. It gives me errors, but after 
running ifconfig, it seems to have done the job? I think.

Then second interface shows up using ifconfig. It has the same hardware 
address as the primary interface, but a different irq, which I assume is 
OK. It seems to be working, not sure if it's actually made a difference 
or not, of if it is even working.

Any one else have any input on this subject? When I have time, I will 
look into testing it out with several different loads.

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Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
439 Amber Way
Petaluma, Ca. 94952
Phone 	707.766.9509
Fax 
707.766.8989
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