[vortex] Dual port 3c920

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Paul English wrote:

> I understood that bonding would need to be supported on both the switch 
> and the NIC, and I'd also need to buy a new switch to replace the current 
> one with twice the number of ports, rather than a second smaller one to 
> supplement. 

It can work either way: one big switch or two smaller switches. The idea 
is to separate the two (or more) NICs from one computer such that they 
don't see each other (as they both have the same MAC address).

> Aaah, i'll take a look at Gamma. I believe that Mvia only supported these 
> 3com nics in the latest beta version, not before that, so you may have 
> been using it with another nic? The tulips have been supported for a 
> while. 

Although my memory is fuzzy about these details, I only have 3Com cards in 
the clusters here, so I wasn't interested (or able) to test for others. 
However, my claim was just that it compiled (it didn't for you...)
not that it worked !


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