Folks,
From
Intel.
"Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
Offers increased
network bandwidth by allowing transmission over 2-8 ports to multiple
destination addresses, and also incorporates Adapter Fault Tolerance. Only the
primary receives incoming traffic. Only the primary transmits
broadcasts/multicasts and non routed protocols. The ANS software load balances
transmissions, based on Destination Address, and can be used with any switch.
Simultaneous transmission only occurs at multiple addresses Implemented in
Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Windows NT 4; NetWare 4.11 and above; UnixWare
7.x with ddi8; and Linux. This mode can be connected to any switch.
- Receive Load Balancing (RLB)
Offers increased network bandwidth
by allowing reception over 2-8 ports from multiple addresses. Can only be used
in conjunction with ALB. Only the adapters connected at the fastest speed will
be used to load balance incoming TCP/IP traffic. The primary, regardless of
speed, will receive all other RX traffic. Can be used with any switch. Any
failover will increase network latency until ARPs are re-sent. Simultaneous
reception only occurs from multiple clients. Available for Microsoft Windows
2000, XP, and Windows NT 4.
See
Not
for Linux though.
john
Folks,
I have eight LANs
which I monitor at once. Each LAN uses a Cisco Catalyst switch, and has
a monitoring port to allow me to see all of the traffic on the switch.
The monitoring ports on the switches are up linked to another switch which
acts as an aggregator. This allows me to monitor all traffic on all
LANs.
Now I have a
similar smaller problem, which is to monitor two LANs at the same
time.
Does anyone know
of an Ethernet card which has two interfaces, but which presents itself as one
interface (It would be nice of each port still had it's own MAC
address). This way I can still select the
interface(s).
I'm running Linux,
but I do not want to capture on "Any" interface, as described in previous
postings.
Incidentally, how
do I use this "Any" feature ?
Many
thanks
john