From: Andy LaPorte (andy@cloud9.net)
Date: Sun May 13 2007 - 16:40:36 ART
I think you would need to use tracking in some way to provide network
redundancy. I have never seen a server perform some sort of tracking unless
both NIC are active/active with some routing function on the server side.
I would be interested to learn if there is another way of doing this also
based just on the server tracking connectivity to an end destination.
Another though is both access switches should be cross linked with spanning
tree blocking that port. If the uplink goes down then the spanning tree
would re-converge and the cross link would become active.
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Venkataramanaiah.R
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 2:52 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: OT : NIC Team
Question on NIC Teaming...
In fault tolerant mode; we generally connect the two NICs to two different
access switches..
It just stuck me; that this might be providing Fault tolerance when one of
the NIC goes down; but what happens when there is a indirect failure like
the uplink between the Acesss switch and distribution switch fails..?
How does the server come to know of this failure condition? (For its
outgoing traffic)
Rgds
-Venkat
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