* Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de> [2010-05-20 20:23]: > * Jussi Peltola <pe...@pelzi.net> [2010-05-20 20:07]: > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:28:55PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > > > * Graham Allan <al...@physics.umn.edu> [2010-05-20 19:23]: > > > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:02:23PM +0200, Axel Rau wrote: > > > > > Am 20.05.2010 um 00:04 schrieb Henning Brauer: > > > > > > > > > > >* Axel Rau <axel....@chaos1.de> [2010-05-19 10:34]: > > > > > >>Now the question: Can I put a trunk on top of a carp? > > > > > > > > > > > >you put carp on top of the trunk of course. > > > > > OK. > > > > > Can I have a trunk connected to 2 different switches then? > > > > > > > > Not normally. Some higher-end switches can support this, eg the > > > > HP Procurve switches running their K-series software can do something > > > > they call distributed trunking (and no doubt Cisco and other vendors all > > > > call it something else). But as I think you were talking about using > > > > cheapish Netgear switches it's unlikely to be possible. > > > > > > well, lacp usually doesn't work across switches. but lacp is not the > > > only mode trunk supports. roundrobin definately works across switches > > > - how well might depend on your switches. works well for me on > > > procurve with E-series software which doesn't do distributed trunking > > > afair.< > > > > How about the warnings about packet reordering and interactions with > > TCP? > > never ran into such issues. too lazy right now to check wether trunk > deals with that in roundrobin or wether i just got lucky.
uh, I just checked and... I am actually running failover. oups. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
