Well, hello Snowy :D The East Coast 6.10 service misses you :D
On 9 Jun 2011, at 21:50, Ian Snowdon wrote: > In message <BANLkTi=0cpwhn29o+ul820lk-qsnnmt...@mail.gmail.com>, Andy Taylor > <andy...@gmail.com> scribes >> Anyone had experience with network bonding in Linux? I'm trying to >> setup IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation bonding but im having >> issues. The network switch (Dell PowerConnect - very similar to Cisco >> ios) is configured for link aggregation for the 2 ports. >> >> OS is Oracle Linux Server 6.0 (x64) >> eth0 is the 'admin' port >> eth1 and eth2 and the 2 bonded ports >> bond0 is the bonded network. >> >> Main problem is the load isn't spreading across eth1 and eth2. I'm >> also having gateway issues. Sometimes, eth0 gets the same address as >> bond0!!!! >> >> This server is dual boot with Windows. Bonding works fine in Windows >> so LAN switch is configured correctly. >> >> Any tips? >> > We didn't do any config changes to Cisco switches when Dell servers were > connected but that was with teamed ports and windows server OS. Not being a > server man I don't know if 'teaming' and 'bonding' are the same or not. As I > seem to remember we did the same with the Sun boxes. > > I used to use 802.3ad 'twixt switches to beef up the backbone and provide > redundancy, this was with Cisco to Cisco and also Cisco to Avaya. My guess is > that we just gave a layer 2 connection for the servers and let the server OS > sort out teaming at layer 3. It seemed to work and there were no complaints > from the server team. Well, that's not exactly true as they were always > complaining and saying "there's a network problem" which we proved not to be > the case. But, in this case, the teaming worked. > > I will admit the memory is getting a little hazy on this as I retired 18 > months ago (after 40 years, two months and a week in IT but who's counting?). > -- > Snowy > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
