[ale] Load Balancing Across Multiple Interfaces

[Christopher Fowler]

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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