Re: NIC Team

From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Sun May 13 2007 - 17:29:39 ART


You may find this HA paper on server farms useful.
http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/netsol/ns304/c649/cdccont_0900aecd800ea162.pdf

Uplink fast on your access switches should help you out with your
access/distribution resilience.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk621/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094641.shtml

Regards
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Venkataramanaiah.R" <vramanaiah@gmail.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:52 PM
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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