Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bonded ethernet ports and *

2005-12-13 Thread Rich Adamson
> Hey all - I'm sure this has been done before, but I'm curious about how well > it works.. Typically we have all our servers setup for dual fast/gig > ethernet failover... I.e. bond0 slaves eth0 and eth1 and fails over between > the two. This together with dual p/s and raid1'd(at least) drives pr

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Bonded ethernet ports and *

2005-12-13 Thread Watkins, Bradley
ubject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bonded ethernet ports and * > Hey all - I'm sure this has been done before, but I'm curious about > how well it works.. Typically we have all our servers setup for dual > fast/gig ethernet failover... I.e. bond0 slaves eth0 and eth1 and > fails ove

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Bonded ethernet ports and *

2005-12-13 Thread trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 19:15 -0500, Watkins, Bradley wrote: > I can say that I've implemented it on several Asterisk servers using the > 802.3ad mode and it works very well. The failover is quick, and there are > none of the issues mentioned here. I'm not particularly concerned about > running at

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bonded ethernet ports and *

2005-12-13 Thread Julio Arruda
Rich Adamson wrote: . Last, the bonding of two nics at the server level _requires_ the associated switch interface to support the exact same bonding algorithm. Historically, that has been a problem for many switch vendors. Not so sure I understand, but if you mean, 'the algorithm to select a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bonded ethernet ports and *

2005-12-14 Thread Rolf Brusletto
Rich - Even though I mentioned ethernet failover, I might have made it still a little too broad. The linux ethernet bonding module has been around for years, and there are several modes the linux bonding module can use which include: mode=0 (balance-rr) Round-robin policy: Transmit packets in sequ

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bonded ethernet ports and *

2005-12-14 Thread Rich Adamson
> Rich - Even though I mentioned ethernet failover, I might have made it still > a little too broad. The linux ethernet bonding module has been around for > years, and there are several modes the linux bonding module can use which > include: > > mode=0 (balance-rr) > Round-robin policy: Transmit p

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bonded ethernet ports and *

2005-12-14 Thread Julio Arruda
Rich Adamson wrote: .. A fairly common assumption is the failover happens in xxx milliseconds, but due to nic card design (etc) a different MAC address is used in the failover condition. That confuses the hell out of the layer-3 boxes and negates the value of the failover. (All documentation, etc

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bonded ethernet ports and *

2005-12-14 Thread Rich Adamson
> > A fairly common assumption is the failover happens in xxx milliseconds, but > > due to nic card design (etc) a different MAC address is used in the failover > > condition. That confuses the hell out of the layer-3 boxes and negates the > > value of the failover. (All documentation, etc, is cor