[Cialug] NIC teaming

[Jeff Chapin]

Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
>   
>>  Anyone teaming nics/bonding nics under Linux?  Did you realize any measurable advantage by doing it?  Any Gotchas?
>>     
>
> I don't personally do any teaming but the gotcha is figuring out how
> to get your switch to cooperate.  Switches, unless forcibly conviced
> otherwise, think that mac addresses should only be on one port.  If it
> sees data with the same mac coming from multiple ports it'll get
> confused and at best you'll only get one link utilized.
>
> Jeff
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When I did this, we didn't have this issue, but we used 2 switches, and 
they got optimized for this a few days after plugging it all in, so I 
cannot say definitively  that that solved the issues.

Jeff Chapin