From: R. Benjamin Kessler (bk-lists@kesslerconsulting.com)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 16:38:00 GMT-3
If you have a server with two NICs, you can connect one to each switch
and configure fail-over (only one active at a time).
If you connect the two NICs to the same switch you can do port
aggregation (FastEtherChannel) to get more than 100Mb of bandwidth.
I don't think you can "split" these NICs between switches and have them
both active - you would have CAM table issues.
Remember, the way Etherchannel works, traffic between two end points
(e.g. server A and client B) will always cross the same "wire" (unless
there's a failure) which means that you won't get more throughput than
is available from a single pipe.
Hope this helps,
Ben
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Nate Kleven
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:33 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: FastEther Channel
Can I build a FastEther channel to a server if it is homed to two
different
chassis? In other words, if I had a teaming NIC, can I plug one
connection
into SwitchA and the second into SwitchB for redundancy? Is there a
better
way to do that?
Thanks.
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