Mal Herring wrote, On 09/19/2005 09:10 AM:
> Can the eth ports when using the bonding driver get plugged into
> different switches ?
Yes.
from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt:
12.2 High Availability in a Multiple Switch Topology
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> In a bonding situation don't both NIC's need to be plugged
> into the same switch or have things changed in the technology
> recently? I think the failure that the original author is
> trying to plan for is a switch failure not a NIC failure.
Thanks for all the replies, I was pointed in the d
Scott Storck wrote:
LACP is that multiple links between the switch and the server are used
as one logical link.
If one dies, then the others are still used.
I have tested it using setups of 2 and 4 gigabit links, and I have had
no problems.
In a bonding situation don't both NIC's need to be
Hallo Mal,
Mal Herring schrieb:
Hi List,
Been looking on forums.gentoo.org looking for a way to pair two NIC's so
that should the primary fail, the secondary takes over...
I use the LACP protocol ( IEEE 802.1ad) between my switches and my servers,
it is one of the bonding modes offered by t
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Thursday 15 September 2005 19:08, A. Khattri wrote:
> > Shame we dont have anything like CARP for Linux yet... (unless someone
> > knows better?).
>
> UCARP, but it's fundamentally flawed, as iptables has no method to keep state
> tables in sync betwe
Mal Herring wrote:
Hi List,
Been looking on forums.gentoo.org looking for a way to pair two NIC's so
that should the primary fail, the secondary takes over...
The situation is this:
8 HP DL380G4's all running Gentoo moving into a data centre rack, the
firewall is currently a Netscreen(Juniper)
On Thursday 15 September 2005 19:08, A. Khattri wrote:
> Shame we dont have anything like CARP for Linux yet... (unless someone
> knows better?).
UCARP, but it's fundamentally flawed, as iptables has no method to keep state
tables in sync between machines.
Personally, I prefer to have iptables s
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Olaf Niermann wrote:
> Maybe you can try a lookup onto 'heartbeat' (emerge -s heartbeat) allthough
> it might be overloaded for your needs and I personally just use it for
> failover between different physical servers.
Just wanted to add that heartbeat is part of the HA Linux
Mal Herring wrote:
> Hi List,
> Been looking on forums.gentoo.org looking for a way to pair two NIC's so
> that should the primary fail, the secondary takes over...
>
> The situation is this:
>
> 8 HP DL380G4's all running Gentoo moving into a data centre rack, the
> firewall is currently a Netsc
Hi Mal,
> Hi List,
> Been looking on forums.gentoo.org looking for a way to pair
> two NIC's so
> that should the primary fail, the secondary takes over...
Maybe you can try a lookup onto 'heartbeat' (emerge -s heartbeat) allthough
it might be overloaded for your needs and I personally just use
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