Hi! As a part of my project, I need to code a device driver to install 2 ethernet NICs on a server mapped with the same IP address even while they have different MAC addresses. The purpose is to share the network load on the server. Also, in case, an NIC fails, I need to dynamically switch the entire load to the functioning interface.
I intend to create another logical ethernet interface having the single IP address that I need to map to the 2 NICs and a single MAC address for ARP resolution. I do not want the 2 ethernet interfaces for the NIC cards to handle ARP and so do not want to assign them an IP Address. After reading the Bridge-STP HOWTO and searching on the Internet, I believe a number of issues in the device driver development can be handled by using Linux Bridge. However, because I do not have too much exposure to using Linux Bridge, I cannot completely figure out, how to go about the coding and integrate my device driver with the bridging functionality of Linux. I went through the code of Linux Bridge. Because I am new to Linux, I do not quite understand how the "hooks" in the bridging code work. Could you please suggest some solution? Thanks Atul Singh (B.Tech.-Electrical) Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, INDIA _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
