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RE: Multiple NICS - Real Servers

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Subject: RE: Multiple NICS - Real Servers
From: Nael Mohammad <nmohammad@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:36:13 -0700
That and the fact that each card requires it's own unique MAC address.  

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Baker [mailto:pbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 9:36 AM
To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Multiple NICS - Real Servers


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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