Redundant NIC config, need help

Hello all,


I have a server running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) v8.
2.4.16-something kernel (I think)

Anyway it has two NICs.

I want to set them up so the server has one network IP address, but
either NIC were to fail, or the path to that nic were to fail (ie. wire
pulled) the other NIC would handle the traffic.

I've been reading, googling, and not finding anything recent, and very
little relevant.

I found a beowolf document, but it's a couple years old. It talked about
"bonding" interfaces... Ididn't make a lot of sense to me.

Any pointers, info, web documents would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Lyndon

Lyndon Bartels wrote:
Do a google on iproute2
That may help.
Josh Beck
> Hello all,
>
>
> I have a server running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) v8.
> 2.4.16-something kernel (I think)
>
> Anyway it has two NICs.
>
> I want to set them up so the server has one network IP address, but
> either NIC were to fail, or the path to that nic were to fail (ie. wire
> pulled) the other NIC would handle the traffic.
>
> I've been reading, googling, and not finding anything recent, and very
> little relevant.
>
> I found a beowolf document, but it's a couple years old. It talked about
> "bonding" interfaces... Ididn't make a lot of sense to me.
>
> Any pointers, info, web documents would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lyndon

In comp.os.linux.networking Lyndon Bartels <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Hello all,


> I have a server running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) v8.
> 2.4.16-something kernel (I think)

> Anyway it has two NICs.

> I want to set them up so the server has one network IP address, but
> either NIC were to fail, or the path to that nic were to fail (ie. wire
> pulled) the other NIC would handle the traffic.

> I've been reading, googling, and not finding anything recent, and very
> little relevant.

No need to google, install the kernel source if you haven't
already and read Documentation/networking/bonding.txt it
contains all you need.

Good luck

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