Re: Redundant NIC config, need help

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:53:39 +0200

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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