Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:07 +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
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>> Firmware 'near' the NIC (I've never seen an explanation of the exact
>> mechanism) interposes itself between hardware and OS and 'hijacks'
>> traffic to that port. It never makes it to the OS.
>>
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> one implication of this is that, when this is in use, the NIC cannot be
> part of a L2 aggregation (because the upstream switch will load-spread
> some of the management traffic flows to other ports in the aggregation).
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> And using it with other L2/L3 redundancy technologies (such as IPMP and
> OSPF-MP) is going to be tricky (the shared management IP address must
> not be seen as reachable via other NICs).
>
Not if both ports are managed by the same technology. For Intel
motherboards that have multiple NICs, this *may* be the case. (I'm not
sure.)
It would preclude mixing and matching add-in NICs though.
-- Garrett
> - Bill
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