[ale] Multi-homed server networking

[Dennis Ruzeski]

What you want to do is enable channel bonding. It's a fairly easy setup
(google 'linux bond0') and make sure your switch supports fast etherchannel
or some other compatible trunking protocol.

--Dennis



On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jeffrey.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a series of Linux servers that, for reasons beyond my control, have
> only 10/100 Ethernet for connecting to their clients.  Because the servers
> are multi-homed, however, I have the option of connecting them to each other
> via a 10/100/1000 switch on a private IP range and that's what I would like
> to do.  However, I don't want doing so to make this "backchannel" visible to
> the client population in an untoward way.
>
> For instance, if one of the servers is a Samba server and Samba
> listens/talks over both eth0 and eth1, I don't want machines on either eth0
> or eth1 see the Samba server twice, i.e., once directly and again "through"
> the server itself to the other side.  I don't want Windows or other Samba
> clients to freak.
>
> - Jeff
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