RE: Re: Kinda On Topic - network question

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I was wondering about this as I have seen 4 port 100Mbits network cards at
NetShop - if you were to put one of these in a server (or several single
port 100Mbits cards) then how would you get the load to distribute across
them? Would it happen automatically or would you need some kind of software
to do load balancing because surely each port will have a different IP
address?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr John Tankard [mailto:john@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 September 2001 09:14
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Kinda On Topic - network question
>
>
> > > With a hub, the maximum throughput is determined by the
network
> > speed (10 or
> > > 100 Mbps). With a switch, the maximum _theoretical_
throughput is
> > determined
> > > by the network speed * number of switch ports / 2.
> >
> > Not quite - the maximum theoretical throughput of a given switch
is
> > determined by the bandwidth of the switch backplane, the internal
bus
> > which is used to route data between the switched ports.
> >
>
> And since in most cases the traffic will be to a common computer ie a
> server you will have a fixed maximum unless you put multiple network
> cards in your server
>
> John
>
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