Nathan Moore wrote: > I don't know. Its a 24 port cisco that I got from our local network admin. > > Nathan
Timothy Mattox describes the network engineering challenges wrt switches far better than I could: http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2001-March/002760.html You're going to have to make a decision on what strategy to follow, and part of that decision is going to be informed by the performance characteristics of your application, as well as the networking hardware your cluster will be equipped with. So, if your application does a great deal of file I/O on the nodes, you might consider implementing a service network through the second network ports. However, if your application needs more total bandwidth on a single network, you will want to go with channel bonding. If the driver(s) for your network ports do not play well with the channel bonding interface, you will have to go with another option, or buy some different network cards. Also, depending on the capability of the switch, you might have to buy a second (dumb) switch to make your plans work. -- Geoffrey D. Jacobs _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
