[c-nsp] network design question

[Roland Dobbins]

On Sep 6, 2006, at 12:27 PM, David Coulson wrote:

> Simple option is to bridge the two NICs that connect to the different
> switches and let Spanning Tree do all the hard work for you.

YMMV, but bridging the NICs this way complicates the troubleshooting  
matrix for the switch mesh, IMHO.  My recommendation would be to use  
NIC failover or a shell-script with a cron job, as someone else  
mentioned.

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