Sun Trunking
The Sun Trunking software is an unbundled product from Sun Microsystems—that is, it is not supplied with the Solaris 9 operating environment and must be purchased separately. Sun Trunking allows you to
Aggregate up to two Sun Quad FastEthernet (qfe) cards (each having four 100Mbps network interfaces) to produce a fat network pipe running at 800Mbps, in full-duplex mode (concurrent bi-directional communication). If a specific network interface fails, then the remaining interfaces continue to operate, taking the additional load from the failed interface.
Aggregate up to two Sun Gigabit Ethernet (ge) cards to produce a fat network pipe running at 2Gbps, in full-duplex mode, between a Sun server and a switch that is Sun Trunking–compatible. ...
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