?how to set up a flat network??

jaw174 · 15th January 2002, 1:56 AM

How do i set up a flat network? maby im not using the right term.. well i heard about it on Slashdot, and some guy built a killer server or supuercomputer for $6k and used flat networking rather than the gigabyte network cards, simply because several network cards are faster that 1 gig card...

anny help with more info on these and maby specs and required hard ware?

Amran · 15th January 2002, 2:44 AM

More info would be good - what are you trying to do with this network? 1000baseT (1 gig) networking is pretty bloody fast...

EazyduzIt · 15th January 2002, 7:22 AM

Jaw, there is probably only one guy here that could set this up. Chris Nolan. Raise it in the SMP and Clustering forum. This has been mentioned before. Your talking about clustering and supercomputing on the cheap. Cheap being relative.

Bunyip

Cringely

Ars and KLAT2

KLAT2 This link should contain all you want to know.

Linux anyone?

Also from the FAQ:

Quote:

What's inside KLAT2?
Although several upgrades are planned, KLAT2's initial configuration (the one that it used for all the benchmarks quoted above) is:

64 + 2 "hot spare" PC nodes, each containing:
One 700MHz AMD Athlon Slot A module and dual-fan heat sink
128MB CAS2 PC100 SDRAM
FIC SD11 motherboard
Four RealTek-based Fast Ethernet NICs
Floppy drive (for net boot code)
300W power supply and mid-tower case with extra fan
10 Fast Ethernet "32 way" switches (31 ports + 1 uplink)
More than 264 Cat5 Fast Ethernet cables
RedHat Linux 6.0 with updated kernel

Rod M · 15th January 2002, 8:53 AM

I think you are refering to "teaming" network cards where you use say, a number of identical 10/100 nic's are teamed and the load is shared between all,

check this out,

http://www.compaq.com/products/serve...g/teaming.html

Avidin · 15th January 2002, 10:21 PM

My Intel Pro Management 100+ has the option to do this with the click of a button.
So you can fool the computer into thinking that you have 1 superfast network card when it is infact 5 linked together.

saba · 15th January 2002, 10:57 PM

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Originally posted by Avidin
My Intel Pro Management 100+ has the option to do this with the click of a button.
So you can fool the computer into thinking that you have 1 superfast network card when it is infact 5 linked together.

Exactly what I do

Ninsei · 16th January 2002, 1:16 AM

I can't rememeber, but does the switch the cards are connected to have to support anything fancy to get the aggregate bandwidth? And which model/chipset Intel cards supported this feature?

saba · 16th January 2002, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ninsei
I can't rememeber, but does the switch the cards are connected to have to support anything fancy to get the aggregate bandwidth? And which model/chipset Intel cards supported this feature?

Anything with "Pro" in the name, and uses the Intel PROmon toolkits. So just about most of them

jaw174 · 19th January 2002, 2:24 AM

is there a how to on the way of doing this???

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15th January 2002, 8:53 AM	#4
Rod M Über Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Training Monkeys Posts: 3,104	I think you are refering to "teaming" network cards where you use say, a number of identical 10/100 nic's are teamed and the load is shared between all, check this out, http://www.compaq.com/products/serve...g/teaming.html