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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9318.0. "load share network?" by SIOG::J_LONG () Thu Mar 27 1997 09:16

    My customer is an Internet Service Providor (ISP) and wants to be able
    to load share connections from the internet across 2 network
    interfaces. Redundancy is catered for by using ASE but not at the
    network level, if an interface card fails, rather than failing over the
    cluster, they want to continue normally.
    
    I do not see LSF suiting these requirements, so I would like to be able
    to configure 2 network interfaces into 1 logical interface. Apparently
    SGI have this facility, do we ?
    
    Regards
    John
    
    
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9318.1X-postedSIOG::J_LONGTue Apr 01 1997 19:538
    I have X-posted this query to the ASE conference note:1976
    
    
    Any takers ?
    
    Regards
    John Long
    
9318.2not yetSMURF::DUSTINWed Apr 02 1997 13:046
    There is no way to logically group two interfaces into one
    virtual interface today.  This is part of a list of features
    for a future release which are currently under development...
    
    John
    
9318.3BACHUS::DEVOSManu Devos DEC/SI Brussels 856-7539Wed Apr 02 1997 16:269
    John,
    
    Can you have a look in note ASE 1970.0
    
    If I did a mistake, can you mail me your comments.
    
    Thanks, Manu.
    
    
9318.4aliases are IP onlySMURF::DUSTINWed Apr 02 1997 17:5710
    Your solution relies on moving aliases between two interfaces,
    which is not what .0 is asking (they want network level
    redundancy, the way I am reading it).
    
    Put another way, your solution works for IP, but not for LAT,
    DECnet, and other protocols, which a network level redundancy
    would solve.
    
    John
    
9318.5It's not what I wanted, however...SIOG::J_LONGMon Apr 07 1997 19:018
    This is true, but it would appear to be the best we can provide, I
    would prefer if we could assign the same IP address to two network
    interface cards on the same system.
    
    
    Regards
    John