[Ocfs-users] Multiple interconnects

[Rui Amaral]

Yup.

Just make sure that you know how your switch is configured for bonding to behave the way you want it to - ie., layer 3 switch for load balancing (mode 1 , 2,3 for load balancing in bonding) or layer 2 (mode 1 for failover in bonding). Also, I have found that 6.2.11a bonding driver is more stable than the latest 7.x version.

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Suzuki [mailto:DSuzuki at ZipRealty.com]
Sent: February 13, 2004 3:56 PM
To: 'Wim Coekaerts'
Cc: 'ocfs-users at oss.oracle.com'
Subject: RE: [Ocfs-users] Multiple interconnects


	Thanks for the info.  Do you know if anyone has tried using the
Linux bonding driver to channel-bond a pair of NICs for redundancy?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wim Coekaerts [mailto:wim.coekaerts at oracle.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:00 PM
> To: Derek Suzuki
> Cc: 'ocfs-users at oss.oracle.com'
> Subject: Re: [Ocfs-users] Multiple interconnects
> 
> 
> I forgot if I responded
> 
> ocsf doesn't support multiple networkcards, however, it has 
> fallback to
> disk if sometihng would happen to the network, and, for 
> oracle io, there
> is no locking so it would only affect file extending, new file create
> etc.
> 
> for the oracle stuff, 10g can handle it, not 9i
> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:26:43PM -0800, Derek Suzuki wrote:
> > 	(Yep, it's me again)
> > 	We've worked around some minor glitches and now have a 
> pair of nodes
> > happily sharing an OCFS volume.  I was wondering, though, 
> if it was possible
> > to configure a second private IP address so that the nodes 
> could communicate
> > over more than one Gigabit Ethernet connection.
> > 	Our RAC books and online docs make some vague 
> references to multiple
> > interconnects, but I have yet to see an actual explanation 
> of how that
> > works.  I suppose I could try using the Linux bonding 
> driver to pair up the
> > NICs, but I'd prefer if this was something that Oracle could handle.
> > 	Thanks, by the way, for all the help so far.  
> Everything's running
> > nice and smoothly now.
> > 
> > Derek
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