[ale] Load Balancing Across Multiple Interfaces

[Brian MacLeod]

Unfortunately not.  It is something I will need to look at at some point though.

bnm 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
> Behalf Of Christopher Fowler
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:13 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: RE: [ale] Load Balancing Across Multiple Interfaces
> 
> You would not happen to have anyting on QoS ?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 09:44, Brian MacLeod wrote:
> > 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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