Glenn,
In Linux, trunking is called 'bonding'. To do so with openfiler, you'll
have to get your hands dirty and work on the command like. But it's
quite simple, you'll see.
Here's three documents that'll help:
http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Bonding
http://linux-ip.net/html/ether-bonding.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/marcelo/linux-2.4/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
Now, getting the bond up should be fairly easy. You may have problems if
rPath's kernel isn't bond-capable by default, and you may need to
install a package to get the ifenslave tool, I do know now.
After getting the bond up, the other tricky part would be to edit
rPath's networking config files so that the bond is created on boot.
Hope this helps.
Andre
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G'day all,
Please excuse me if I get my terminology wrong.
I have a question regarding trunking of network ports on OpenFiler. Say
I have openfiler running on a server with 2 x gigabit ports, on port 1 I
share out NFS / HTTP / etc to our internal users, on port 2 I have a
seperate "data" network for communicating directly with servers via iSCSI.
I am concerned that I may be able to flood the "data" network 1Gb link,
so I ask if it is possible to add another Gigabit network card (or 2)
and trunk them together to give me (effectively) a 3 Gigabit
semi-redundant link?
For the purpose of this discussion lets assume that the switch the
openfiler server is connected to can support trunking.
Does anyone know? Is there a HOW-TO somewhere that I have overlooked?
Regards
Glenn Crawford
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