On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 15:32 +0200, Ante Karamatić wrote: > Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 09:11 -0400, Victor Hugo dos Santos wrote: > > >> One suggestion about ifslave (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LinkAggregation). > >> Generally, any servers have 2 or more NICs... In my opinion ifslave > >> should be installed for default in basic install of ubuntu server !!! > > > agreed.. or make it conditional in the installer if more than one > > interface is found. > > I'm not sure about that... ifenslave could be easily installed after the > installation -
like everything else.. really. With the mindset that everything can be installed easily, there is no point to even distribute 700MB CDs but you might as well drop a 50MB installer only and install everything later (yes you can run X in < 50MB live image). the package is very small Size: 11920 So let me ask you the same question indirectly: why do you install iptables if I don't need a firewall? </sarcasm> > server would have ethernet connection with or without > ifenslave. OTOH, there are servers that don't utilize ifenslave even > though they have two or more ethernet devices. Think of small servers > that are being used as routers in SMB. You need to divide services from hardware management packages. SMB is a service. ifenslave allows me to manage hardware (handling network devices). In an HA environment is extremely common to bond interfaces. If you don't want to install ifenslave directly, then you can consider having an ubuntu-ha metapackage/task that will pull it in but don't leave a cluster server without. Fabio _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ha Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ha More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
