Re: Redundant NIC config, need help

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 10/28/04

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    In comp.os.linux.networking Lyndon Bartels <lbartels@pressenter.com>:
    > Hello all,

    > I have a server running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) v8.
    > 2.4.16-something kernel (I think)

    > Anyway it has two NICs.

    > I want to set them up so the server has one network IP address, but
    > either NIC were to fail, or the path to that nic were to fail (ie. wire
    > pulled) the other NIC would handle the traffic.

    > I've been reading, googling, and not finding anything recent, and very
    > little relevant.

    No need to google, install the kernel source if you haven't
    already and read Documentation/networking/bonding.txt it
    contains all you need.

    Good luck 

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#bofh excuse 179: multicasts on broken packets
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