Richard Elling via illumos-discuss writes: > On May 27, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Gabriele Bulfon <gbul...@sonicle.com> wrote: > > What we want, is to have CIFS to be accessible on the lan through the 4 > > phys cards, with two double paths > > over the 2 switches. > > If possible, the 2 double paths should work as 4 paths when everything is > > ok, and not just 2 alternative > > paths in failover mode. > > This is not possible to do this using DLMP or IPMP and have all 4 paths > carrying > load. The only way to do that is to have a 4-way aggregation across both > switches (with > or without IPMP) and choose the best load balancing policy to spread the > workload across > multiple clients.
Maybe a simpler solution like publishing four DNS round robin IP addresses for your CIFS server would be better in this case. Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: v...@bb-c.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
