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List:       inet-access
Subject:    Re: NIC Level Redundancy
From:       Andy Walden <andy () tigerteam ! net>
Date:       2003-05-07 21:33:21
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On Wed, 7 May 2003, E.B. Dreger wrote:

> AW> Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:14:28 -0500 (CDT)
> AW> From: Andy Walden
>
>
> AW> Has anyone used any 1+1 redundant nics? I have a requirement
> AW> to find some, and I have, but I need to know that it has sub
> AW> 1 second failover.  100baseFX is prefered. Thanks in advance.
>
> Sounds like you want 802.3ad.  I recall seeing an experimental
> Linux driver for it, but think it was buggy.  I started writing a
> FreeBSD driver, but that's on the shelf at the moment.  Some NICs
> have it implemented in their Windows drivers.  I don't know about
> other OSes.

Actually I'm trying to dual home to seperate switches, so link aggregation
unfortunately isn't going to work out. Thanks anyway.

andy

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