Etherchannel works with Linux?

EtherChannel is where you combine multiple NICs to form a "virtual" IP, so
you get the combined throughput of all the NICs behind a single address.
Check this out at the link below if you don't know already...
http://www.ciscosystems.am/en/US/pro...f.html#1019854

In anycase, my question is how do implement it in Linux. I am using Suse. Is
this implemented only on the host or on the network swtich, etc...? Thanks

Clayton

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In comp.os.linux.networking - C - <(E-Mail Removed)> suggested:
> EtherChannel is where you combine multiple NICs to form a "virtual" IP, so
> you get the combined throughput of all the NICs behind a single address.
[..]

> In anycase, my question is how do implement it in Linux. I am using Suse. Is
> this implemented only on the host or on the network swtich, etc...? Thanks

Setup bonding:

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
(needs kernel sources installed)

Just make sure your cisco knows about it, or it'll freak out
because of seeing the same MAC on different ports.

Sadly the SuSE networking scripts are not able to care about
bonding out of the box, as other distro, so you need to fiddle
around a bit.

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