[nsp] High-availabity GigE connection to two switches

[Rubens Kuhl Jr.]

> >> 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)
>
>
> My preference would be to take the obvious approach and make them two
> separate
> subnets.  But then I'm weird...

Making them two separate subnets would transfer to the application
(operating system included) the fail-over role... this will fit ok into
load-balanced applications, but it will not address communications between
machines on the same segments.



Rubens