From: Markus Fischer Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi,comp.parallel.pvm Subject: exp. in channel bonding (bundling) ? Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:22:21 +0200 Organization: University of Mannheim Message-Id: <3740261C.E49A031C@markus-fischer.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov Xref: ukc comp.parallel.mpi:5093 comp.parallel.pvm:8387 Hi, has anybody made some experiments and/or got experience (performance graphs, problems ... ) with channel bonding (two ethernet cards instead of one) to increase BW ? Do I have to patch Linux in order to use it (I found the ifenslave.c on beowulf) ? Or is this working with the beowulf package only ? any pointers are appreciated, regards, markus -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dipl. Inf. Markus Fischer Tel.: +49 621 292-1621 University of Mannheim Fax: +49 621 292-5597 Computer Architecture email:markus@markus-fischer.de B6, 26 68159 Mannheim