You say "ideally I want to disable the nic with copper cable," then I would put that NIC on a different subnet. This would effectively disable the card since no one is on that subnet. All traffic would then go through the fiber connection. An alternative if you really want it to be used would be to purchase a router or another RH box for those two nic's to go to. The router would need to be capable of link aggregation and the RH box would need to have bonding set up. Or if using two RH boxes both would need bonding set up (which most likely requires a kernel re-compile). See the bonding.txt file in /usr/src/linux-.../Documentation/networking for details on how this works.
Larry S. Brown Dimension Networks, Inc. (727) 723-8388 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zhi Cheng Wang Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: how to load both nic on start up? thanks Larry and your reply makes sense. this is the storage server which is used by a multi-cpu server and they are under the same subnet, connected to two switches one using copper cables and other fibre ones. there are many more servers and desktops under the same subnet will also need to access these two servers. ideally i want to disable the nic with copper cable, but if do so, network is not available and any commands will take ages to execute -----Original Message----- From: Larry Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2003 15:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: how to load both nic on start up? You need to subnet these two NIC cards. They need to have masks that separate them. Where are they going? Are you trying to achieve more bandwidth than the fiber provides? If so, there would have to be greater than an e1000 on the gateway anyway. Larry S. Brown Dimension Networks, Inc. (727) 723-8388 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zhi Cheng Wang Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to load both nic on start up? there two ether cards, one with UTP CAT 5 cable connected to eth1 (bcm5700) and one fibre cable connected eth0 (e1000). they have different IP on the same network, e.g. 130.88.231.86 and 130.88.231.85 but only the eth1 revealed by netstat. Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 130.88.231.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth1 130.88.231.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 40 0 0 lo default 130.88.231.249 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0 if i disable eth1, no network available and other commands such as "ls -l" will take ages to respond OR to my it in other words, how can i achieve this: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 130.88.231.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth0 130.88.231.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 40 0 0 lo default 130.88.231.249 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0 any suggestions? many thanks cheng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
