Re: multi ethernet cards for a squid cache

I have used Intel EtherExpress 10 cards in Linux. Linux has great support
for the cards. Unfortunately, the cards suck goat balls (pardon my
analogy :-). They are ssllooww. You'd probably get better throughput
with a single 3com 10mbit NIC than with two Intel EE10 NICs.

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Alvin Lim wrote:

> You would have to use ethernet cards and switches which support load balancing,
> and fault tolerance. On top of that, you would need a driver for RH6 for the
> load balancing features. An example would be the Intel EtherExpress 10/100 NICs
> for Servers. However, I don't think that there is yet a driver for Linux for
> the Intel NIC.
>
> Nothing to do with Squid features here (I think). Unless someone else has
> something to add.
>
>
> Rob Harris wrote:
>
> > Greetings all--
> >
> > Has anyone figured out how to make squid use more than one ethernet card
> > to retrieve objects into it's cache?
> >
> > I have a unix box (linux rh6) running squid (latest) with a multiport
> > ethernet card (10mb) behind a switch and a router tied to a T3. I would
> > like squid to round robin/load balance the traffic amongst the 4 ports on
> > the multiethernet card if possible as I have an obscene amount of traffic
> > that I pass through this box.
> >
> > Any thoughts would be most helpful.
> >
> > --Rob
> > ____________________________________________________________________________
> > Rob Harris 9885 North Washington Blvd. ph: 301.598.0500
> > SkyCache, Inc. Laurel, MD 20723 x2236
> > rharris@skycache.com "My opinions are my own." fax: 301.598.0837
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>

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