On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 11:53 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > On Friday 31 August 2007 10:37, Christian Zoz wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, Frank Bonnet wrote: > > > I've found some docs about "bonding" but it is written that it is an > > > obsolete page ! > > > > > > What is the "good" doc page URL for opensuse 10.2 ? > > > > man ifcfg-bonding > > Hi Christian, > > If Frank prefer URL, in Konqueror Location field: > man:ifcfg-bonding > ;-) > > http://en.opensuse.org/Bonding > http://en.opensuse.org/Bonded_Interfaces_With_Optional_VLAN > > BTW, as coauthor of ifcfg-bonding manual, can you see above links. > First probably needs update for newer versions of SUSE. > > -- > Regards, > Rajko.
All of these references to bonding are "CRAP" , I have a stack of IBM x305 servers all of which come with two Broadcom nics which under Netware are very easy to load balance with, I have released a few of these servers by building vmware replacements for functions like the "printserver" I was using for Iprint. With the released servers I have been working with SLES 10 sp1 and OES2 BETA, the documentation for bonding is as vague as one could possibly find in a enterprise solution. I had to combine all of these papers and some seat of the pants know how to get it working. The new Yast Networking module supports bonding , but there is no documentation that tells you how to set your physical nics up as "slaves" so you have to read and apply the CLI papers to figure that out. Then there are issues with options, the documentation regarding the setting of the "VNic" (bond0) are even worse, only trial and error got me to use the -rr (round robin) setting correctly. Novell and the SUSE team need to invest heavily in YaST usability. YaST is a very useful tool but it too often assumes that it is a shortcut for a CLI user rather than the primary tool set for a new Linux Admin\User. The left pain that is supposed to be the guide to setup needs to include more links to, preferably Novell on-line Docs, but really good community docs specific to SUSE\YaST usage would be acceptable p.s this documentation void is also very evident in the advanced functions of the DHCP and DNS servers. -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
