Its a funny question. I have 3 internet connection from same subnet

IPs are:

192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
192.168.0.4

If I use 3 LAN card, and connect all of them , should I be able to get more bandwidth than using only one ?

In that case, If I request for website browing , emailing, which lan card will take the request ? how should I control a proper load balance ?

What I want is to combined all the bandwidth from 3 connection (this is my server pc) and provide more bandwidth to my LAN client.

I am using fedora core 5.

Regards,

AFAIK combining network interfaces can be achieved through a technique called "bonding". This needs to be enabled in the kernel, I don't know the exact procedure for Fedora, maybe you can find a howto somewhere. And the situation you're describing is not entirely clear to me. Are you trying to connect to three different ISPs? Because if you have only one ISP account, using three cards is not going to give you thrice the bandwidth.
I hope that helps.

Thnx for the reply,

well, I got 4 ip from the same isp, and was told that I will get 512 kbps, but I am not sure, this 512 kbps will come from one connection or combindly 4 connection...so, I want to intregrat 3 of them and test,
because, from one connection,,,I am not getting that much bandwidth.

Is this possible in windows ??

Regards,

If it's not possible in Linux, I doubt it's possible in Windows.


I'm sure this is possible, but WHY???

It's an issue of the numbers. Let's assume you have four DSL lines running at 512 Kbps each. Though I've found DSL realistically to be 50% of the advertised speed, let's assume you are on that imaginary network with 0 latency and everything working as well as theoretically possible.

Combining the 4 connections at 512 kbps each, you have a total possible theoretical bandwidth to your ISP of 2 Mbps. Ok?

You are using Ethernet networking, I assume? Fast Ethernet?

Ok, standard Fast Ethernet has a maximum theoretical speed of 100 Mbps.

See where I'm going? If ONE network connection will handle 100 Mbps and your internet connection is about 2 Mbps, you're not going to get any gain to the INTERNET by adding network connections to your computer. However, if you wanted to transfer files between two computers on your LAN, it might help.

Using 4 cards like you explained would be sort of like trying to drive a car through a mile wide opening in a fence. You can make three more openings the same size, but it's not going to get the car through any better.

And in addition to what jantman wrote:
If you believe you are not getting the bandwidth you paid for, or if you are in any way unclear about what service they are providing you, then I think you should first ask your ISP for clarification in this matter by sending them an email, for example, or checking if maybe they have a faq on their website that answers this question. This will save you a lot of trouble for nothing.
I hope that helps.

ok, think it like this,

think you are a lan user and u were given 4 ip:

192.168.0.1, 2, 3, and 4

so, what if you team/bond them together, would you get more bandwidth on ur server ??? then you might make anoter lan to (172.16.0.1/16 subnet??) and make ur own network ???

regards,