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Scott Lowe
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      10-19-2004, 06:45 PM
Anyone know of any tricks to provide NIC fault tolerance, i.e., have a
second NIC pick up traffic (automatically "failover") if the primary
NIC fails?

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Michael Heiming
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      10-19-2004, 07:11 PM
In comp.os.linux.networking Scott Lowe <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Anyone know of any tricks to provide NIC fault tolerance, i.e., have a
> second NIC pick up traffic (automatically "failover") if the primary
> NIC fails?


/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt has all info
you need, works like a charm.

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