Re: Multiple Uplinks
Hello,
forget it, because if you try Load-Balancing between
the two NIC's you will get a very heavy CPU-Load...
To increase the bandwidth and get redunancy you can
use a managed CISCO-Switch with two CISCO-Nics which
do that by hardware without any CPU-Load.
Michelle
Am 04:03 02.06.2001 +0800 hat Jason Lim geschrieben:
>
>Hi,
>
>I was wondering a few days ago about this... tell me if this is possible
>or not.
>
>We have servers with 2 NICs each. Right now, we usually plug in only one
>of the NICs to the switch.
>
>However, some people want to have the other NIC connected as well for
>redunduncy and additional bandwidth (100Mb per link).
>
>I was thinking that we could do something with routed and /etc/gateways,
>but I'm not sure how this would work. We try to run a little "extra"
>software on each server as possible (for a whole number of reasons,
>including stability). Do you guys have any suggestions? How do you get
>this kind of thing set up with as little fuss as possible?
>
>Sincerely,
>Jason
>
>
>
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