Hallo Mal,
Mal Herring schrieb:
Hi List,
Been looking on forums.gentoo.org looking for a way to pair two NIC's so
that should the primary fail, the secondary takes over...
I use the LACP protocol ( IEEE 802.1ad) between my switches and my servers,
it is one of the bonding modes offered by the bonding driver.
LACP is that multiple links between the switch and the server are used
as one logical link.
If one dies, then the others are still used.
I have tested it using setups of 2 and 4 gigabit links, and I have had
no problems.
I have only tested it with HP procurve switches, with which I have had
no problems at all.
HP refers to it as LACP and/or IEE 802.1ad, but I have heard that some
other switch manufactures call it other names...
I can also recommending checking out the bonding driver in general.
MfG,
Scott
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