On May 29, 2014, at 2:17 AM, Darren Reed <darr...@fastmail.net> wrote:
> On 27/05/2014 11:41 PM, Richard Elling via illumos-discuss 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. > > If I were to translate that into Cisco speak, it would be a LACP VPC of 4 > links, 2 on each switch going to 4 ports on the server that bonded all four > ports into a single LACP interface? I think so, but note that LACP is the link aggregation control protocol, an optional component for managing link aggregations. See IEEE 802.1ad and its subsequent breakup. It is not uncommon for people to say "LACP" when they mean "Ethernet link aggregation." You will also hear people use "LAG" which is more natural for describing link aggregation. -- richard ------------------------------------------- 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
