Hi I've got 2 DSS machines with both 2 NICs dedicated for replication. Can anyone tell me if bonding these interfaces will work when the 2 nics are connected directly to the other DSS via a crossover cable without the use of a switch?
-Jochum
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Hi I've got 2 DSS machines with both 2 NICs dedicated for replication. Can anyone tell me if bonding these interfaces will work when the 2 nics are connected directly to the other DSS via a crossover cable without the use of a switch?
-Jochum
Yes, it should as long as your nics support MDI/MDI-X. We do this with newer SuperMicro and Dell servers without a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by speak
Tom
MDI/MDI-X support is part of the Gigabit ethernet standard, so it should work. In fact, standard procedure for our boxes is to use 2 bonded together crossover cables for replication.
Robotbeat, what bond type do you use in that case?
We use 802.3ad when connected to switches (that support it), but this case is NIC-to-NIC, so maybe different? Cheers.
We use 802.3ad with Nic-to-Nic, too.
OK thanks, we will try that now.
hey silicon
is the 802.3ad working with Nic-to-Nic ??
Hi symm, not had time to implement that yet, got my hands totally full of other issues at the moment with changing hardware and software versions.
Hello,
I try to do this NIC-to-NIC bonding with 802.3ad bond too, but replication only use 1 port! What is wrong?
802.3ad will give only redundancy and not more performance for a single connection. However, if you use 802.3ad with multiple hosts, you will probably gain some more performance, but for a single connection between two hosts, you'll never get a speed bump.
Cheers,
budy
And with balance-rr and two crossover cable NIC-to-NIC can i expect to have better performance ?