With Intel cards use the e100 driver instead. Also Intel has another piece of software called IANS. Intel Advanced Networking System. It will allow you to use up to 8 Intel cards as one, or do load balancing, and etc.Up to 8 ethernet interfaces can be grouped together. It's assume.
I use a dual nic with a Cisco switch, and I am able to send out one interface and receive in the other. Although that config relies on my switch just as much as the IANS driver. Load balancing does not. Here is a link to download both http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/filter_results.asp?strOSs=39&strTypes=PLU%2CDRV%2CSPH%2CUTL&ProductID=416&OSFullName=Linux*&submit=Go%21 Actually the latest e100 driver 2.x I could not compile in RedHat 7.3? I have emailed Intel, but I have not heard back yet. So get the 1.8.x version ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/2896/eng/ ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/2896/eng/e100-1.8.38.tar.gz ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/2896/eng/e100-2.0.30.tar.gz With IANS the latest version compiles and works fine ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/2895/eng/ ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/2895/eng/ians-1.7.17.tar.gz Make sure to see the read me's. For further clarification here are some examples of how to config after compiling and installing both IANS, and he e100 driver, updated. Here is my IANS config in /etc/ians/ians.conf TEAM deth TEAMING_MODE FEC VLAN_MODE off MEMBER eth0 PRIORITY no_priority MEMBER eth1 PRIORITY no_priority VADAPTER vdeth0 I then have the following in my /etc/modules.conf #Intel Pro100+ Dual Port Adapter alias eth0 e100 alias eth1 e100 options e100 e100_speed_duplex=4,4 IFS=0,0 alias vdeth0 ians post-install ians /usr/sbin/ianscfg -r I then go to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and get rid off of all the ifcfg-eth*. You can save one, as you will want to rename it to ifcfg-vdeth0 or what ever you named you new dual ethernet interface. Make sure it's IP address and etc is what you want for your new dual ethernet interface. If you do not when you start the networking services it will try to use the interfaces like normal. This way it's starts the virtual dual ethernet interface 0, and loads what it needs. Now if you look at my IANS config, you will see FEC. That is Fast Ethernet Channeling that I use with my Cisco switch to achieve bonding of the two interfaces. So something on the other end of the two cables must support this. Otherwise load balancing will be the only thing you get. Make sure to read the read me's but the above should help out allot. Do not try to use another driver other than e100. Use e100, it screams. Also you can try other things like the Beowulf channel bonging, but I have not been able to replicate the behavior of IANS. Make sure to use fixed speeds on both ends, and use the e100 modules args to adjust this. It's covered in the read me's. Good luck hope that helps. On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 08:43, Ivan A. Beveridge wrote: > Hi, > > Hopefully this won't be too off-topic (I've seen both bonding & vlan > mentioned on the list, but not really together). > > I've tried to get bonding (2 x 100Mb EEPro, but will want to try on > 1000BaseT) and vlans to work together, but without luck. I can get them > working fine (seemingly at least - I didn't tried bursting on the > bonded port) individually. However, when I bond the ports together and > then run vlans on top, it doesn't seem to work (although there are > no errors when configuring the interfaces). > > FWIW, this is: > * RedHat 7.3 ("customised" RH73 kernel - 2.4.18) > * Intel EEPro 100Mb dual-port NIC > * Extreme Summit4 switch. > > Any suggestions gratefully accepted. > > > Ivan > -- > Ivan Beveridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > -- Sincerely, William L. Thomson Jr. Support Group Obsidian-Studios Inc. 439 Amber Way Petaluma, Ca. 94952 Phone 707.766.9509 Fax 707.766.8989 http://www.obsidian-studios.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
