--- Hans du Plooy
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 22:21, Rhugga wrote:
Does anyone know of any clean, enterprise-quality solutions for trunkning 2 or more interfaces for performance and availability purposes? I last looked into this about 1 1/2 years ago and at the time it required a kernel patch. I was hoping SLES 9 and the 2.6 kernel would allow for this w/o risky kernel patches.
OK, I'll shoot seeing as no one has replied yet. What is "trunking" - what exactly would you like to do?
-- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT hansdp at sagacit dot com
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It binds two or more interfaces togetgher and sends/receives packets round-robin (well on Sun there are different polices that gorven this behavior, round-rboin is just but one) between the two. It provides instant failover as well as bandwidth consolidation. I have sun systems that have 4-gb bandwidth accross a single 'interface' using 4 copper gigabit cards. The downfall is that your switch also has to support port aggregation. (any decent enterprise quality switch surely will) It offers a very clean and robust solution for protecting against NIC failure and also provides added performance. Hope this helps...