ethernet over displayport

[Pandora]

so i want to use dual nic to do teaming on my LAN. but my mobo only has one ethernet port. i remember hearing somewhere that ethernet was in the displayport spec. i did some looking around and i have not been able to find anything about that. 
anyway i was wondering if anyone knows anything about that and knew if i could use teaming in that fashion. 
i cant use an ethernet card on my system because i run haswell and sli unfortunately.

 

basically im asking if displayport can carry ethernet in its spec and if i could team.

[Moonzy]

i dont know about displayport being used as LAN, and frankly it sounds kind of ridiculous

but i guess you can grab one of these

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[Oshino Shinobu]

HDMI can carry ethernet, but DP does not. Ethernet over HDMI almost certainly can't be used for teaming. Not easily, anyway. 

Do you just not have enough slots for a PCI NIC? You should still be able to use one, I believe it should use the chipset's PCI lanes, not the CPU's. 

EDIT: Also, how are you planning on using teaming/link aggregation on the local network? Is it going directly to another machine? To do it, every bit of hardware involved needs to support a link aggregation protocol. 

[Pandora]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

i dont know about displayport being used as LAN, and frankly it sounds kind of ridiculous

but i guess you can grab one of these

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ya i know it sounds super janky. but i thought it would be a cool test to see if i could do it. i would go for the usb 3 to ethernet connector but i am using all of my usb ports already and have already filled up my usb 3 hub.

[Pandora]

3 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

HDMI can carry ethernet, but DP does not. Ethernet over HDMI almost certainly can't be used for teaming. Not easily, anyway. 

Do you just not have enough slots for a PCI NIC? You should still be able to use one, I believe it should use the chipset's PCI lanes, not the CPU's. 

technically i do have the slots necessary im just not sure about the lanes. i think the chipset lanes are being used by the sata express hub or something.

 

also i might try the hdmi thing.

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, thorbrantly101 said:

technically i do have the slots necessary im just not sure about the lanes. i think the chipset lanes are being used by the sata express hub or something.

You could buy a cheap NIC and test to see if it works. If not, you can likely just return it. If it does work, then you could spend some more on a good NIC that supports something like LACP.

[Pandora]

Just now, Oshino Shinobu said:

You could buy a cheap NIC and test to see if it works. If not, you can likely just return it. If it does work, then you could spend some more on a good NIC that supports something like LACP.

ima try that. i looked into the hdmi spec and it would be the most janky system ever. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, thorbrantly101 said:

ima try that. i looked into the hdmi spec and it would be the most janky system ever. 

The only use for ethernet over HDMI that I can think of is to connect a smart TV to the internet over wire from a receiver without having to run another ethernet cable to the TV. I've never actually seen someone utilise it. 

 

[Pandora]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

The only use for ethernet over HDMI that I can think of is to connect a smart TV to the internet over wire from a receiver without having to run another ethernet cable to the TV. I've never actually seen someone utilise it. 

 

ooh i just had a better idea. im going to get a thunderbolt card. since i can 100% do that. i already have a thunderbolt to ethernet converter. and thunderbolt is awesome :D.