What
is 802.3ad link aggregation? Tell you what - buy the box and I'll tell ya
how it works ;)
Seriously, though, its a networking protocol for ethernet cards and
ethernet switches to be aware of flow relationships - i.e. it makes the switches
and hosts aware that the ethernet card attached to port 1 and the one attached
to port 5 are actually part of the same node. So, nodes become aware of
how to redirect traffic in case of a failure, as well as how to load
balance
AIX,
right? Here's a link to IBM's discussion on it for the
p-series:
Good
luck,
Matt
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Subject: RE: Oracle Compress OptionMatt,What is 802.3ad link aggregation ?? Any handy URLs ?? TIARaj--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: Matthew Zito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: Oracle Compress OptionOn our appliance, to get around the irritating load-balancing+failover issue, we're using 802.3ad link aggregation. Trying to load-balance Gigabit is really an exercise in futility - almost all of the performance improvement comes from improved interrupt queuing (and even that is already mitigated on the card through coalescing interrupts). The real benefit is the failover - that works very very well.Thanks,Matt
