Re: Bonded gigabit cards

[Kurt Keville]

When you get every second (or third if you have 3 switches in your bonded 
network) packet in a comingling of bonded and non-bonded NICs, your message 
will "eventually" get through but that somewhat detracts from the point of 
channel bonding since the other cards would incur the same overhead.

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> Channel bonding is transparent to practically all network protocols,
> but channel bonding does *not* interoperate with non-channel-bonded
> networking.  (The non-channel bonded machines will not receive every
> second packet.)  One consequence is that network booting does not work
> (DHCP, BOOTP, Etherboot, PXE, whatever).  This can be an
> inconvenience.  For example, we use FAI to automatically install
> nodes, but if for example we have a disk failure on a node, we have to
> schedule a cluster shutdown to switch to non-channel-bonded to
> reinstall the node.




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