[c-nsp] network design question

[Michael K. Smith]

Hello All:


On 9/6/06 12:32 PM, "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins at cisco.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
Since we're on a networking list.  :-)  Couldn't you also have a "real"
loopback address and use OSPF to load-share across two NIC's by using the
loopback as the destination?

Mike