> How about channel bonding?  If you put two (or more) cards 
> into a switch,

That's exactly what I'm looking for.  I wasn't sure if it was possible
without a bunch of modifications.  Most likely, I'll need to bond together
the 2 onboard NIC's on a Cobalt RAQ.  

Not only should this give me redundancy, but increased throughput.  

Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark K [mailto:mkroska at readynetgo.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 5:45 PM
> To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] adapter teaming
> 
> 
> 
> How about channel bonding?  If you put two (or more) cards 
> into a switch,
> you'd get redundancy, plus the extra speed of more channels into your
> hub/switch.  
> 
> I know this is a current kernel (2.2.15+) option for sure, 
> but I haven't
> gotten it to work yet.  There should be docs/howtos/etc 
> available in the
> usual places I'm sure.
> 
> Thoughts?
> MK
> 
> 
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Matt Thoren wrote:
> 
> > "Austad, Jay" wrote:
> > > 
> > > Anyone know how to do adapter teaming with a couple of 
> EEpro or 3c905's?
> > > 
> > > I have a server that I need to put 2 NIC's in for 
> redundancy.  If one fails,
> > > the other one will still need to carry traffic.  
> Assigning 2 ip's is not an
> > > option.
> > > 
> > > I know you can do this with NT/2000 (blech), but how do 
> you do it with
> > > Linux?
> > > 
> > > Jay
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> > 
> > Jay,
> > 
> > Why is temporarily assigning 2 ips not an option?  This is the way
> > Siemens did it.  A very small heartbeat program 
> communicated to one card
> > and when there was no response the program reconfigured the 
> secondary
> > ethernet card for the primary network.  Simple, 
> inexpensive, effective.
> > 
> > Matt.
> > 
> 
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