What to do with all those “Spare” Ethernet Ports on my Servers

by | Jun 4, 2012 | IT Tips | 2 comments

For the last couple of years I've been scratching my head wondering why each server delivered had 2+ ethernet ports... and what to do with them.

Apparently VMWare supports Etherchannel so instead of having idle Ethernet Ports I should be able to do EtherChannel...

One of the many things one needs to learn to stay current in IT.

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  1. cwraig

    There is something a bit strange with this post.
    The link from RSS went to the vmware page.

    If you click the title to this post on https://toggen.com.au/ it goes to vmware too.

    This Ethernchannel is great stuff because you can add or subtract them on the fly.

    I used this and some other esx networking magic to create a Windows VM that was forced to pass all its traffic through a dummynet to simulate a terrible 3g network connection.
    Something like http://codefromthe70s.org/dummynet.aspx

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    • admin

      Right you are. This new theme has the option to post external links which is denoted by the right facing after the post title.

      Seeing as a large number of my posts are thoughts based on external websites I thought I would have a play with the feature. Bit confusing because generally when you click on a post you just go to the single article view.

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