On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 05:10:06PM -0700, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 15:07, Ivan A. Beveridge wrote:
> > However, I'm looking to use a dual gig card (something like a SysKonnect > > SK-9844), with the ports bonded, and then running vlans over the resulting > > bonded channel. > > Your original post did not mention that. You mentioned a dual Intel nic. Apologies - it was mentioned in passing (not stating the model of 1000BaseT [actually that was wrong? they would be fiber]) cards). I made the assumption (oops ;) that whatever worked with 2+ 100BaseTX would work with other cards (eg ifenslave/bonding + vlan). > Either way if you have one Intel nic you may still be able to achieve > what you want. IANS does support gigabit but all cards in the group must > be the same speed. No mixing 100's with 10's or 1000's. All 100's all > 10's or all 1000's. The reason for the syskonnect (prob. SK-9844) is that it is dual-gige fiber (for higher port-density). I've not seen any other dual-gige cards, and have used these in "normal" use successfully. > > WRT channel bonding, I was using ifenslave (using redhat's ifcfg- scripts > > and the bonding module), although I see there is an 'ethernet link > > aggregation' (802.3ad) driver, which the syskonnect help seems to point to: > > http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~yumo/#veth > > I've no idea what the difference is between this and bonding. > > Correct me if I am wrong, but ifenslave is a tool from the Beowulf > project. It's (now) in the "iputils" package that includes ping, tracepath, rdisc, ping, etc. The RedHat rc scripts will use ifenslave, if you have the relevant entries in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* (MASTER / SLAVE etc entries). > I remember downloading it and trying to get it to work in my > RaQ XTR. But I could not. All the info was duplicated, IP, subnet, etc. > All looked good from ifconfig, but did not work like IANS, or at all. > Only one interface was working. As I mention, I have not actually tried to burst > 1 interface worth of bandwidth with it, but traffic went across. As you say, possibly only 1 interface. > > Anyway (hopefully not pushing my luck too much here :) anyone used the > > syskonnect with some kind of channel bonding/aggregation and vlans? > > No, may be with the card you want to use. But otherwise it should be > something that can be done. Yeah - the page says it can, with the external software mentioned (vlan and the 802.3ad stuff). Perhaps I'll try to give that a go, but would be interested to hear from anyone who has a working generic solution with any cards (or SK-9844 in particular). Silly timescales :( Many thanks for the information William/Bill - I'll have a look at that IANS stuff, as I'm sure I'll need multi-port aggregation on EEPro100s at some point soon :^) Ivan -- Ivan Beveridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
