I'm expecting delivery any day now of two boxes, each configured with 4 x 300mb disks which I will use for myself at home and they will allow me to play with bonding, replication and failover, oh and Linux, cause even though I've been a programmer for over 20 years now I've always found Unix/Linux more complicated than its been worth, but Openfiler for its utility and Ubuntu for its ease are starting to sway me.
I imagine many hours of frustration ahead though :( as I play and test things out. However, hopefully the experience will stand me in good sted for what I want to do at work. Jason ----- Original message ----- From: "HAWKER, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jason, The Linux bonding driver can handle this quite happily (I have it in use here on an obscure embedded device, but not OF, for redundany). It has quite a few options, pick whichever to suit your appropriate application (802.3ad, its own round-robin type, etc). However, whether its included in OF is another question. There certainly isn't a GUI for it (that I can find), but the kernel module is available. Hand-config is very simple, most of the time its just a case of loading the module and ifenslaving your NICs. Once that's done I find you need to test and tweak your switch settings, but it works admirably well. Obviously this is all theroetical (not tested with OF) but it should be fine. HTH Dan _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
