[ale] Bonding/Trunking multiple interfaces for redundancy and performance?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 07:20 -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
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>   Has anyone tried bonding 2 NICs on one server and plugging that into 2
> different switches which in turn are plugged into 2 different firewalls
> to provide redundancy without having to use heartbeat for NIC failover
> or anything similar?

Hmm. If you use one of the failover bonding modes, that might work. Mode
1 is designed for just that purpose. Across two separate switches is the
new thing. It should be easy to test, though. Set it up, pull the plug
on one and see if the ping gets through anyway.

 All of the bonded ethernet stuff I have done is to aggregate interfaces
for increased bandwidth.
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