[K12OSN] Solving the bandwidth bottleneck

Jim Kronebusch jim at winonacotter.org
Tue May 10 19:58:24 UTC 2005


> yes, you could connect the 2 switches to your 2 nics and 
> split the load.
> 
> Just make sure you don't then connect the 2 switches together.
> 
> AND, make sure you pick different subnets for the 2 networks.
> 
> Something like 192.168.0.x for eth0, an 192.168.1.x for eth1 
> would work, assuming your netmask is 255.255.255.0
> 
> Although i'd be pretty surprised if you are utilizing all of 
> the 1gbit link between the server and 1 switch.  Again, 
> assuming the switch has a 1gbit port.  If not, that would be 
> a great way to resolve your bandwidth problem.

I assume that then you don't have to make any changes to lts.conf or
dhcpd.conf and all traffic will just find its way back out the
requesting port?  If so cool.


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