[Ocfs-users] Multiple interconnects

[Wim Coekaerts]

yes we use it internally also and it works fine
look at the hanic nic-failover project on oss, that gives some ideas
also in rhel3 and forward the bonding driver has more options available.


On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:56:17PM -0800, Derek Suzuki wrote:
> 	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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