Also, does Openfiler/CentOS allow me to bond network ports? IE to allow
more than one port to respond to a single IP address, so that each port can
be conneted to a different switch, etc?
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Jason,
The Linux bonding driver can handle this quite happily (I have it in use
here on an obscure embedded device, but not OF, for redundany). It has quite
a few options, pick whichever to suit your appropriate application (802.3ad,
its own round-robin type, etc).
However, whether its included in OF is another question. There certainly
isn't a GUI for it (that I can find), but the kernel module is available.
Hand-config is very simple, most of the time its just a case of loading the
module and ifenslaving your NICs. Once that's done I find you need to test
and tweak your switch settings, but it works admirably well.
Obviously this is all theroetical (not tested with OF) but it should be
fine.
HTH
Dan
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