>>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at  3:33 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ayer,
Paul W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
-snip-
> But it dawns on me that channel bonding and Vswitch (the way we have
> them)  really don't go together.

The most common use of NIC bonding is for reliability purposes, not bandwidth.  
So, in that sense, you already have that when connecting to a Vswitch that has 
a backup OSA.

> So my thinking is that what we really need it two Vswitches with one OSA
> in each.
> No backup OSA needed, but would be nice to have. 
> 
> Then when we channel bond the eth0 and eth1 they really use to different
> OSA's and
> we can then get double the data flow.

I don't think you can define two Vswitches that use the same range of IP 
addresses.  If what you want is Link Aggregation, upgrade to z/VM 5.3 for that.


Mark Post

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