using 2 lan cards for thin client..?

[StealthGhost]

Hi there! Good day.

I'm having a problem here. I have a server using fedora 4 and using thin client for my workstation. And I have two lan cards on the server.

Can I use my 2 lan cards for my workstation? If it can, how? hope someone would help me out. I'm serving 30 clients for this, would the speed increase its transfers?

Thanks A lot..!!

[www.maoke.de]

i would use only one network interface, because the konfiguration on each client is the same.

if you want that the clients have a better performance with the server, you can use 2 network interfaces, but then you need 2 nameserver records for each IP. if 15 clients of the 30 go to one interface and the rest on the second one, you need on the client`s different konfiguration`s (the DNS records,...).

or?
what you think?

[mndar]

How about bonding the 2 interfaces to get better performance? The bonding kernel module can be used for this.

[StealthGhost]

"bonding" like in windows, making a network bridge? Sorry guys, I'm kinda new with Linux.

www.maoke.de, would they have different server IPs and Name? I have to add at dhcpd.conf a configuration for the other network interface, right?

Thanks for the help guys.. :)

Have a nice day..

[StealthGhost]

Thanks for the help mndar, for the idea. I'll read about kernel bonding module i found on the net. thanks a lot.

here's the site I checked out..

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-modules-ethernet.html

[mndar]

Here are some of the commands I had tried while I was experimenting
modprobe bonding
ifconfig bond0 <ip>
ifenslave bond0 eth0
ifenslave bond0 eth1

[Kluster]

Here are some of the commands I had tried while I was experimenting
modprobe bonding
ifconfig bond0 <ip>
ifenslave bond0 eth0
ifenslave bond0 eth1

Brilliant! It was that easy on FC5...thanks!