(eww html mail?) Stuff like the intel cards are shipped with "teaming" which lets you set active/standby port selection (as well as classical etherchannel and STP type protocols.)
This means the standby port won't be used for any outgoing traffic, thus the switch won't learn the shared MAC on that card. It'll "see" unicast flood, broadcast and perhaps multicast crap on the standby NIC but the card will be throwing it all away. Its not "true" redundancy by any classical stretch of the imagination but it works fine in situations where your redundancy requirement is dead chassis detection. Adrian On Fri, Mar 21, 2008, James Slepicka wrote: > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> > </head> > <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> > enlighten me<br> > <br> > Adrian Chadd wrote: > <blockquote cite="mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">On Fri, Mar 21, 2008, James Slepicka wrote: > </pre> > <blockquote type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">Maybe only a consideration in the data center, but you can't > do NIC > teaming across multiple switches for fault tolerance. > </pre> > </blockquote> > <pre wrap=""><!----> > Sure you can. > > (Oh, you want me to tell you how?) > > > > > > Adrian > > </pre> > </blockquote> > </body> > </html> _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
