Its fairly easy to do. You're looking to use the 'bonding' driver. http://www.technomenace.com/2009/06/implement-bonding-rhel-5/ Please note that there are different modes for how bonding behaves, defined in /etc/modprobe.conf It can be configured across switches, but you need to make sure that the mode allows for it. On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Dean Thompson <dnt07@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all > > I am relatively new to RHEL. We have a few implementations of network > aggregation with fail-over configured on some of our Solaris servers and I'm > looking into whether we can implement similar configs on a RHEL 5.5 server. > > Is it possible for only certain nics\drivers? > Can it be configured across multiple switches? i.e. If I have four nics, can I > group two in an aggregation group and connect it to one switch and group the > other two in another aggregation group and connect it to a different switch, > having only one group connected at a time with the other as a fail-over. > > Regards > Dean > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
