"David B. Ritch" <[email protected]> writes: > What is the best practice for the use of multiple NICs on cluster nodes? > > I've found that when I enable Etherchannel bonding in out network > equipment, PXE booting does not work. It breaks the initial DHCP > discover request, presumably because the response may not return to the > same NIC. However, bonding the interfaces is a clear win for node > availability and for performance. > > The best solution that I have is to turn off port channels in our > network equipment, and use Linux kernel bonding, in balance-alb mode. > This provides adaptive load balancing by ARP manipulation.
A few years ago I added 802.3ad LAG support to etherboot now gpxe. When used it negotiates tells the LAG that there is only one member. You might want to try that. Eric _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
