[K12OSN] Bonding 3 networkcards and 3 switches.

[Steven Santos]

The other part about doing it this way is that you can put your thick
clients on 100mbit segments, and the thin clients on the switch with the
gigabit port.

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Steven Santos
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> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
> Behalf Of Burke Almquist
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:39 PM
> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Bonding 3 networkcards and 3 switches.
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> On May 19, 2010, at 1:42 AM, jan nilsen wrote:
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> > So, I have a server with a 1gbit NIC, and 3 16-ports switches (all
> > 100mbit ports), that are linked togheter the old switch-in-switch
> > style, and I have about 45 clients (mix of thinclients, workstations
> > and laptops).
> >
> > When most of the machines are in use, I notice that having only
> > 100mbit out of the server is not enough.
> >
> > So I can either buy myself a 48 port switch with 1gbit uplink with
> > money we don't have (we realy don't have any money),
> > or I thought I could try this "bonding" thing.
> >
> > I can put 3 network cards in the server, and connect each of those
> > networkcards with it's own 16-port switch, that way I would have
> > 300mbit out of the server.
> If you are doing it this way, you aren't using bonding at all. You'd
> be splitting the load over three different cards, probably by
> segmenting your network.
> Doing this requires editing certain config files to make this work.
> 
> This https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/MixedNetworkSetup page
> will give you an idea what files need to be changed. You need all the
> services to run on all three nics taht are serving clients.
> 
> 
> >
> > What kind of bonding mode should I choose?
> >
> > Or is there some other way?
> >
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