channel bonding

[Vu Pham]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 12:51 -0500, Vu Pham wrote:
> I would like to increase the Ethernet bandwidth of a server by using the
> Pro 1000/MT Dual Server card from Intel. This server is Redhat 9 with
> kernel 2.4.20.
> 
> Looking at Intel web site, they have ANS driver ( which does port
> teaming )for this card and  for Linux kernel 2.4.x but they say that
> they won't continue the ANS driver and will use the open source Channel
> Bonding instead.
> 
> Do you know if their ANS driver is good enough , or is it better to
> upgrade the server and use Channel Bonding ?
> 
> And if the later is better, then which 2.6 kernel has the most stable
> feature of channle bonding ?
> 
> Thanks for your advice,
> 

I started this dual-gigabit test  by just using the Intel ANS driver
instead of upgrading the server to the kernel 2.6.

The installation went well without any hiccup, just make and make
install. Then I use the ianstool to configure the two ports with 802.3ad
and ifconfig to assign the IP address. That's it.

Whenever I have more time, I will try upgrading this server to 2.6 and
playing with the channel bonding.

Vu