On Thursday, 23 January 2003, at 09:13:10 +,
Doug Kingston wrote:
> 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
>
All I have
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
On Wednesday, 22 January 2003, at 10:07:32 -0600,
Martin A. Brown wrote:
> : 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.
>
> Linux supp
Doug,
: 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.
Linux supports channel bonding which should do what you want. There is
little document
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