Re: Multiple NICS - Real Servers

["Don Hinshaw" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx> said:

> > Michael McConnell wrote:
> >
> > You want to take advantage of the DUAL NICS in the real server to provide 
additional redundancy.
> > Unforchunately the Default GW issue comes up....
> 
> I assume you have boxes each with 2 NICs and you want the
> 2 NICs to be redundant. This is a reasonable thing to expect
> but I can't see any easy way to do it. The nearest
> related things are
> 
> 1. channel bonding, where multiple NICs on a machine have the
> same IP and MAC address and are used for higher throughput.
> I read through 2yrs of messages on the beowulf mailing list
> about this last night and couldn't see anywhere where people
> allow this sort of setup to run after one card has failed.
> I presume it's not doable.

It might be with Intel Pro/100 cards and Intel's drivers. At least their 
Windows drivers will keep working if one card in an "adapter team" fails.
 
-=dwh=-

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