[K12OSN] Bonding 3 networkcards and 3 switches.

[Todd O'Bryan]

I have two of these:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1010000&CatId=2786

They work well. You get gigabit from the server to the switch(es) and
then 100Mb from the switch to the client. They have an extra gigabit
port so you can connect the two switches with a gigabit cable.

Todd

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Burke Almquist <burke at thealmquists.net> wrote:
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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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