[nsp] High-availabity GigE connection to two switches

[Rubens Kuhl Jr.]

Switch Fault Tolerance relies on Spanning-Tree... seems a bit frightening. I've considered using spanning-tree, but was not aware of driver-level implementations such as Intel's... any horror stories on extending STP to all your hosts ? 



Rubens




----- Original Message -----
From: Sven Huster <sven at huster.me.uk>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:03:34 +0100
To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens at email.com>
Subject: Re: [nsp] High-availabity GigE connection to two switches

> 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