[vdr] Re: AW: VDR-Network-Traffic-Managment

[Steffen Koch <Steffen.Koch@sphinx-electronics.de>]

Axel Gruber wrote:
>>A switch would be enough. (around 50 Euros for 8 port 100MBits)
>>I've the little bit more expensive version. I've a 3com switch,
>>configured port trunking for 4 ports and also 4 ethernet-cards in the
>>file-server. that gives you a theoretical throughput of 400MBits in and
>>400MBits out. Should be enough.
> Hi - das hoert sich interessant an !
> Frage:
> Wenn dein SErver 4 NICīs hat - hat er doch auch 4 IPīs. Hast du das dann so gemacht, 
> daß du z.B.: Client 1-5 IP1, Client 6-10 IP2 usw......
There is a load balencing driver for linux that handles that stuff 
automatically

> Oder macht das bei dir irgendeine software automatisch ?
The switch must support that feature, too. But most of the more 
expensive manageable switches do.