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> 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.
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> It is not doable. If one of the NICs fails, every other packet will be
> dropped.
Perhaps on one particular implementation this is true, but I don't
think you can say that in general, for all multi-NIC channel aggregation
setups, this is true.
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John Cronin
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