XP: Bridge connections | How to?

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Vivek Punjabi

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Hi,
i have a small Gigabit network of 25 pc's. Each has its own ip and is linked by several gigabit switches and it works great.

Several of the new PC's have 2 ethernet adapters and i wanted to know if Bridging the connections would give me any speed advantage?

How would i go about doing this?

would i need to give both the adapters unique ip adresses and then bridge them and give the bridge a third ip? or i would only give the bridged connection an ip adress and leave the others blank?

would i need to have a cat5 cable connected to both the ethernet connections or to any one?

thanks in advance
vivek
 
there is something in the network connections that says bridge connections...i have understood that as using both the interfaces to double the throughput.....this is my understanding.

if thats correct then how do i achieve that?
 
Well, My understanding on bridge connections are different. I belive bridging create a single subnet out of multiple lan segments. And it seems your PCs are already in a single lan segment. I don't know if Bridging will usefull in this scenario.
For enhancing the throughput by load balacing between to ethernet interfaces / giving fault tolerence can be accomplished by port aggregation. I have seen some Intel Server Ethernet adapter card supporting this function, where it makes virtual interface out of the participating network interfaces and the ip is configured on this virtual interface. Don't know about doing this with desktop interface cards.
 
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