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Re: Multiple NICS - Real Servers

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Multiple NICS - Real Servers
From: Paul Baker <pbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:35:49 -0500
Joseph Mack wrote:
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 is not doable. If one of the NICs fails, every other packet will be dropped.

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