[ale] Multiple Interfaces and Routing NFS

[Jim Kinney]

Brian,

Look at ethernet-bonding in a load-balancing format. Since both nics go the
same switch it will be very fast and easy.

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bonding

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a machine with three network interfaces. The wireless one should
> be irrelevant.
>
> route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> Iface
> 192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
> wlan0
> 192.168.186.0   *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
> eth1
> 192.168.186.0   *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
> eth0
> link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0
> wlan0
> default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
> wlan0
>
> My goal is to be able to manually load balance NFS traffic across the
> two interfaces. eth1 has the address 192.168.186.1 and eth0 has the
> address 192.168.186.2. Both are connected to the same switch. I can
> mount the NFS share using either address. However, no matter which
> address I use when mounting, all the traffic is sent over eth1. My
> network foo is not strong enough for me to be certain how to easily
> change this. Any suggestions?
>
> -Brian
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