[X4U] Wireless and ethernet

[Robert Ameeti]

At 8:31 AM -0700, 12/20/05, Hector Luna wrote:

>You've only got data transfer through one of the pipes. I don't know 
>which one is chosen by default

The one that is higher up in the list in the Network Preferences pane

>and its likely that you can specify one for a particular app (FTP, 
>etc.) but you aren't going to be splitting the workload between them.
>
>On servers you'll have two network interfaces (NICs) sharing a 
>single IP. This is done for load balancing and/or fail over 
>redundancy.

The weak link is the bandwidth from a single IP so you wouldn't put a 
single IP across multiple NICs in the same server.

>  But generally, these server NICs have circuitry that most consumer 
>grade NICs don't. With consumer grade NICs you generally need 
>third-party utilities to team the NICs, but I don't see a purpose 
>for going to the trouble and expense for the scenario you describe.

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Robert Ameeti

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