Gigabit improvements possible?

[Robert Latham]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:57:52PM +0200, paolo.zini at ipcf.cnr.it wrote:
> Is possible to improve the TCP-IP stack delay?

Not too much you can do about latency. 

> The motherboard as two gigabit ports.
> There is a way to use  the second, unused gigabit channel to improve
> performance?

If your switch is smart enough (or you've got a 2nd switch) you can
use channel bonding to improve bandwidth.  

http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt

==rob

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Rob Latham
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