Shotgunning Ethernet Connections?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday January 24, 2001 @08:53AM from the 100-Mbps+100-Mbps=200-Mbps? dept.

Jon Bardin asks: "I am currently living in a dorm at the University of South Florida. The dorms come wired straight to the Internet and my connection is pretty zippy, because I have seen 2 megabytes per second download speed. I was wondering if there was a way, with the new fancy 2.4 Linux kernel, that I could shotgun at least two of the eight ethernet ports in my suite together, as to effectively double or quadruple my download speed. It doesnt have to be a Linux solution either its just all this talk about the fancy TCP/IP stack and firewalling has me thinking about things. The ethernet ports are configured by DHCP and are reasonably static... I got a new IP when I got back from winter break. so any help would be greatly appreciated." This question gets asked a lot. I wasn't quite sure if this was possible for the 2.2.x kernels, but I figure it might be time to ask this now that 2.4 has been released.

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Wait a minute.... by hansendc · 2001-01-24 04:39 · Score: 5

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This is yet another demonstration of how broadband is like a drug. The more of it you get, the more of it you want. For instance, all of those slow AOL users don't want any more. But give them one hit of cable modem, and they go nuts.

You get 2 MEGABYTES/sec!!!!!! AND you want more!!!! My suggestion: stop now while you still can, broadband almost has you in its clutches. Once it gets hold, it never lets go. Run, run for your life, run while you still can.
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