[c-nsp] L3 to access layer

Fri Mar 21 12:03:26 EDT 2008

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grow up.

 >>"teaming" which lets you set active/standby port selection
which requires that both ports be in the same L2 domain.

Adrian Chadd wrote:
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> Stuff like the intel cards are shipped with "teaming" which lets you set
> active/standby port selection (as well as classical etherchannel and
> STP type protocols.)
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> This means the standby port won't be used for any outgoing traffic, thus
> the switch won't learn the shared MAC on that card. It'll "see" unicast
> flood, broadcast and perhaps multicast crap on the standby NIC but the
> card will be throwing it all away.
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> Its not "true" redundancy by any classical stretch of the imagination but
> it works fine in situations where your redundancy requirement is dead
> chassis detection.
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> Adrian
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> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008, James Slepicka wrote:
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>> Adrian Chadd wrote:
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>>   <pre wrap="">On Fri, Mar 21, 2008, James Slepicka wrote:
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>>     <pre wrap="">Maybe only a consideration in the data center, but you can't do NIC 
>> teaming across multiple switches for fault tolerance.
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>> Sure you can.
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>> (Oh, you want me to tell you how?)
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>> Adrian
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