[nsp] High-availabity GigE connection to two switches

[Sven Huster]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 02:49:02PM -0300, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:
> 
> Any suggestions on how to provide high-availability to a server that has two network cards, each one connected to a different switch ? Etherchannel doesn't seem to apply here, unfortunately. 
> (Switch is either a Cat4K or a Cat6k)
> 

Some Intel's NIC support something call switch fault tolerance, if i'm not mistaken.
So you config one virtual interface on the server, which then contains the 2 NIC.

Sven