Re: Can't get NIC Bonding with active-backup working

2012-02-01 Thread Shaun
On 01/02/2012 16:25, Camaleón wrote: > option (channel bonding) is currently available, my guess is that they > can be using "something" (a special hardware configuration or specific > software/routing setup) that is preventing this from working the way you > want. ..Indeed they were ;-) Work

Re: Can't get NIC Bonding with active-backup working

2012-02-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:04:04 +, Shaun wrote: > On 30/01/2012 17:22, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:29:07 +, Shaun wrote: >>> >>> output from cat /etc/network/interfaces >> >> (...) >> >> I have the same setup as yours in my lenny servers but with a >> difference: both cards ar

Re: Can't get NIC Bonding with active-backup working

2012-02-01 Thread Shaun
On 30/01/2012 17:22, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:29:07 +, Shaun wrote: >> >> output from cat /etc/network/interfaces > > (...) > > I have the same setup as yours in my lenny servers but with a difference: > both cards are connected to the same physical switch in the same VLAN. >

Re: Can't get NIC Bonding with active-backup working

2012-02-01 Thread Shaun
On 30/01/2012 17:22, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:29:07 +, Shaun wrote: >> >> output from cat /etc/network/interfaces > > (...) > > I have the same setup as yours in my lenny servers but with a difference: > both cards are connected to the same physical switch in the same VLAN. >

Re: Can't get NIC Bonding with active-backup working

2012-02-01 Thread Shaun
On 31/01/2012 14:15, toor wrote: > Hi > > My first guess would be an arp issue. Have you tried a flush of the arp > table on the switches? > Sadly this box is a physical server that is in a data centre and the underlying infrastructure is not mine. Though the admin is quite happy to try some th

Re: Can't get NIC Bonding with active-backup working

2012-01-31 Thread toor
Hi My first guess would be an arp issue. Have you tried a flush of the arp table on the switches?

Re: Can't get NIC Bonding with active-backup working

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:29:07 +, Shaun wrote: > Have tried to get NIC Bonding working as per wiki.debian.org/Bonding. > > Each NIC is connected to a different switch for redundancy rather than > bandwidth purposes (insulate against a switch failure). I'm using the > active-backup mode for HA

Can't get NIC Bonding with active-backup working

2012-01-23 Thread Shaun
Hi all, Have tried to get NIC Bonding working as per wiki.debian.org/Bonding. Each NIC is connected to a different switch for redundancy rather than bandwidth purposes (insulate against a switch failure). I'm using the active-backup mode for HA failover. output from cat /etc/network/interfaces