[SunHELP] Teaming NIC cards

[Kovalev, Ivan]

This is called IP Multipathing. You will need 4 IPs for your 2 NICs, assign
them to one group and set either for load balancing or just hot standby. Go
to Sun web site for detailed instructions, they're fairly easy to implement.

Ivan

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pampel [mailto:joe at ardsley.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 7:47 AM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Teaming NIC cards


Hi -

I'm rebuilding our network core here and since we're going to have 2 core
switches I'd like all of our key devices to have 2 NIC's. My Novell &
Windows
machines already have "teams" of NIC's where each card has the same IP
address
and goes to a different switch in the array.  I've not yet seen a solution
like this for Solaris 8 although I'd be very surprised if one does not
already
exist.  Any hints/links/etc would be greatly appreciated! The E3500 already
has a 2nd NIC in it, I just have to get it working alongside the existing
one.

Thanks,

Joe
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