Re: [LARTC] Configuring a redundant ethernet connection

2003-01-23 Thread Doug Kingston
It turns out that the bonding driver does indeed handle interface redundancy to two separate switches. Martin was right and the kernel documentation file (networking/bonding.txt) is packed full of useful information. The specific section that deals with what I need is under the heading "High

[LARTC] Configuring a redundant ethernet connection

2003-01-22 Thread Doug Kingston
I am interested in setting up a host with dual ethernet connections to the same IP subnet (but different switches) for redundancy. We need reasonably transparent failover if an interface fails. In studying the existing HOWTO documents and other stuff produced by Google, it looks like the confi