Do you need STP enabled to run active active bonding one CentOS4?
I would like to improve the throughput of my db servers, running CentOS4.7 64bit. I wanted to bond the 2 interfaces together, and active active configuration to provide more throughput and provide fault tolerance. My question is this, my network is a flat Layer 2, with 2 gigabit dumb switches, so no Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). If I bond the 2 nics active active, then plug one nic in one switch and one nic in the other switch, would I create a routing loop?
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no you dont need it, Here are my config files you can copy them to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
ifcfg-bond0 ---------------------------------------- DEVICE=bond0 BOOTPROTO=none IPADDR=10.XX.XX.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.248 NETWORK=10.12.XX.XX BROADCAST=10.12.XX.XX ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no ---------------------------------------- ifcfg-eth0 ---------------------------------------- # Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet DEVICE=eth0 MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes HWADDR=00XXXXXXXXXXXX BOOTPROTO=none IPADDR=10.12.XX.XX NETMASK=255.255.255.248 NETWORK=10.12.XX.XX BROADCAST=10.12.XX.XX ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no ---------------------------------------- also you need /etc/modprobe.conf alias bond0 bonding options bond0 miimon=100 mode=0 alias eth0 bnx2 alias eth1 bnx2 |
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