On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Philippe Andersson <pan@iba-group.com> wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
All,
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.
I've checked a couple switches and I'm confused. I found one old comment that there was a 8-port Netgear 1Gbit switch that supported it for $100 which sounds great.
But I need about 24 ports, and from my initial looks I haven't found one yet that does.
My method is to drill down into spec sheets, but I'm hoping someone has already done that and built a nice list? We successfully use bonding on our HP DL380 servers (SLES). They're hooked to HP ProCurve switches (typically the 5406zl model).
But I'm not aware of any support for bonding being needed on the switch side. As far as I know, everything happens on the server side. I may be wrong and just lucky to use a compatible switch, of course.
I know less about this now then when I started looking into it. ==>Per another reply: There is a protocol in nic bonding that provides for automatic switch detection of bonded lines... The short answer is yes, you will need to manually setup which ports are the bonded ports on the switch. However, there are bonding protocols that don't require a special switch mode. Modes 5 and 6 don't require a switch with 802.3ad. == So, I have not yet read through the link bonding HowTo, but I assume the above modes are Linux Bonding modes. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org