Dear Spyros,
can you post the extracts of the README.ifenslave?
or give me the entire path.
Spyros Ioakim wrote:
> I added on a rh7 workstation two network cards.
> I did the steps described README.ifenslave
> I set up two ports on my switch as multitrunk.
>
> Couldn't really test it with speeds of 200 mbit or more
> cause the pc i had was too slow with an even slowest hard disk.
>
> The switch though displayed utilisation on both ports which means
> that bandwidth loading was active.
>
> Problem though is that if you unplug one of two of the cards the network
> is dieing.
> Ping will time out one every other packet request.
> The documentation says:
> 5. What happens when a slave dies?
>
> Currently, the ethernet drivers don't really handle this
> situation very well. The tulip driver never stalls; it just starts to
> throw packets away!
>
> That's pretty much what is happening with my case.
> So in other words it does work as a fast network pipe but not as redundant.
>
> Spyros
>
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