On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:30:22 kashani wrote: > > Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments, or criticisms? Anybody > > konw how to do a thing like that? > > First off don't assign separate IPs to each port on your four port card, > bond them into a single interface. That will simplify your config and > perform better.
Yup, bonding is really cool, and trivially simple to setup. Enable CONFIG_BONDING as a module, in "Network device support". Install ifenslave, then edit /etc/modules.d/bond, like this: alias bond1 bonding options bond1 mode=1 miimon=100 max_bonds=5 You probably want mode 0, I use mode 1 for redundancy only. Then change your net config to something like this: config_eth0=( "null" ) config_eth4=( "null" ) RC_NEED_bond1="net.eth0 net.eth4" slaves_bond1="eth0 eth4" config_bond1=( "192.168.1.1/24" ) Then you use bondX from then on (no net.ethX should be in any runlevel). -- Mike Williams -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
