Aggregating network interfaces

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Using more than one hard drive to achieve better performance and fault tolerance is very common. Less well known is that it’s also possible to aggregate more than one network interface into a single logical interface. In Linux, this is handled by the bonding driver. Benefits of doing this are much the same as the benefits of aggregating discs using RAID: if one device dies, your server carries on working and by using two devices in parallel, performance can be improved.

Link: Debian-Administration.org