Lundgren, Andrew wrote:
> So the only way to use two nics at once is to bond?  I am more for redundancy 
> rather than increased throughput.

Yes. When we first did this with Lustre bonding was not as good, bonding 
works fine now so we did not see the need to continue to duplicate 
function.

cliffw
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:34 AM
>> To: Lundgren, Andrew
>> Cc: '[email protected]'
>> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] How do you make an MGS/OSS
>> listen on 2 NICs?
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:28:33AM -0700, Lundgren, Andrew wrote:
>>>    I am running on CentOS 5 distribution without adding any
>> updates from
>>>    CentOS. I am using the lustre 1.6.4.1 kernel and software.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    I have two NICs that run though different switches.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    I have the lustre options in my modprobe.conf to look like this:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    options lnet networks=tcp0(eth1,eth0)
>>>
>> This way of interface bonding is now a deprecated lnet
>> feature. Please refer to:
>> http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual16_HTML/DynamicHTM
>> L-13-1.html
>>
>> Isaac
>>
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