On 3/7/07, Iwan Rahabok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hello world,
I'm designing an infrastructure that is be able to support very high network
traffic between 2 machines, which must be connected via switches. 2 switches
are required (likely Cicso 2960, but open to others) for active-active.
The traffic is bi-directional. So X4600 will send & receive via both switches
to X4200, and vice versa. So it has to handle inbound and outbound traffic.
Is your requirement that the machines have connectivity to each other
and some other place, or is it that you need the switch to be in the
middle for policy/filtering decisions? If it is the former, you could
likely achieve what you are wanting by using the onboard gigabit links
to connect each machine to the switch(es) then use a 10 gig back to
back link between the servers. If you had a switch with 10 Gb ports,
you could avoid the back to back links.
Since you are already spending some pretty big bucks on the 4600, I
suspect that the $2k for a pair of dual-port 10 Gig NICs wouldn't be
too much of a budget buster.
http://www.sun.com/products/networking/ethernet/10gigethernet/index.xml
Mike
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