[nsp] High-availabity GigE connection to two switches

[Church, Chuck]

Depending on the NICs and the OS, you may be able to do a fail-over
teaming setup.  I know 3Com, Intel, and Compaq/HP support this.  There
are variations in design, but they work similar to HSRP, where one is
active and the others lay and wait for missing keepalives from the
active NIC.  Once it appears to be down, a standby NIC takes over and
assumes the old NIC's MAC address, so that no ARP re-learning has to
occur.


Chuck Church
Lead Design Engineer
CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
Wam!Net Government Services - Design & Implementation Team
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Herndon, VA 20171
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Rubens Kuhl Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:49 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [nsp] High-availabity GigE connection to two switches


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)


Rubens



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