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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Howorth wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
> > Greg Freemyer wrote:
> >
> > > I considering setting up link bonding for the first time.  The
> > > server would have 2 NICs.  Possibly a couple of the clients would
> > > have the same, but most of the clients only one NIC.
> >
> > To my knowledge, the ethernet switch doesn't specifically need to
> > support bonding.
>
> Are you sure about that, Per? I recall having to configure my switch
> when I set up bonding. But it was years ago and perhaps things have
> changed. FWIW my switches are 12-port AT-9410GB and they work fine.

Not 100% sure, no.  It's been a long time since I dabbled with NIC
bonding - in the days of kernel 2.0 or 2.2.  I googled a bit and found: 
kernel/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt:

5. Switch Configuration
[snip]
The active-backup, balance-tlb and balance-alb modes do not
require any specific configuration of the switch.


/Per

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/Per Jessen, Zürich

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