[ale] Load Balancing Across Multiple Interfaces

[Brian MacLeod]

I realized that some may not have that documentation on their system (like my RHEL 3 systems - grrr!)

I've attached the documentation.

bnm
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
> Behalf Of Brian MacLeod
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 9:29 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: RE: [ale] Load Balancing Across Multiple Interfaces
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> Bonded interfaces (link aggregation, channel bonding, and 
> Etherchannel in Cisco lingo) is what you want, but the 
> biggest issue with that is that the device your NICs connect 
> to has to support it, and then be configured (from what I 
> understand from our network tech, relatively easy on Cisco).
> 
> >From the linux side, see:
> /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
> 
> It can be a little weird to get set up, since once activated, 
> your two (or more) interfaces actually respond with the same 
> MAC address (so if you're using DHCP for the IP addresses, 
> make sure you know which MAC is used).  But this works very 
> nicely on our file server here at the Center.
> 
> ---
> Brian MacLeod
> Computer Services Specialist III
> Gwinnett University Center
> Technology Services
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Kevin O'Neill Stoll
> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:10 PM
> > To: ALE
> > Subject: [ale] Load Balancing Across Multiple Interfaces
> > 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I have been googling for information on configuring two 
> interfaces to 
> > respond to the same ip address in order to share the load 
> of requests 
> > and possibly provide some fail-over.
> > 
> > I have found a lot of information on multiple ip's per nic but not 
> > multiple nics per ip.
> > 
> > Could someone point me in the right direction?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > =====
> > Kevin Stoll
> > http://kevinstoll.com/
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