On Wednesday, 22 January 2003, at 10:07:32 -0600, Martin A. Brown wrote: > : I am interested in setting up a host with dual ethernet connections to > : the same IP subnet (but different switches) for redundancy. We need > : reasonably transparent failover if an interface fails. > > Linux supports channel bonding which should do what you want. There is > little documentation outside the kernel for this, but what documentation > exists is very good. This can be found in a linux source tree in the > following file: > As far as I know ethernet bonding (trunking) is a layer-2 point-to-point thing. So you need compatible bonding implementations at both sides, and every cable in the trunk on each end must go to the same box. The original poster said "dual ethernet connections to the same IP subnet (but different switches)", so I'm afraid bonding is not an option. Regards, -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.4.20-xfs)
