Combine NICs

camresu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 93

I was wondering if there were any apps in the portage tree that would allow you to combine nics for spped gains. I recall that there was a way to do this with modems to increase bandwidth.

I want to combine two or more wireless nics in order to stream video.
I don't want to string a wire from point to point.

I plan to host an event where I will have multiple mointors (lap tops, old pcs) streaming video with a gui front end.
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glitch13 · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:47 pm Post subject:

While it's not in portage, the only thing I've ever seen that does something like that is Firehose:
http://heroinewarrior.com/firehose.php3

I'm not sure if it's even what you're looking for as I believe is only for file transfers.

Taladar · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject:

Disclaimer: I didn't try any of these myself:

There is a kernel module to do this in the vanilla kernel. The config option is called CONFIG_BONDING.

You might also want to have a look at http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.loadshare.html