On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 08:18 +1000, Ben Halicki wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking at setting up load sharing on a server using two NIC's, > just wondering if anyone has any experience in this area? > > The two common methods seem to be using TEQL or Bonding. Which one > would be the better method, or more common of the two? > > Thanks in advance, > > Ben. Hi Ben - Have a look at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3- Manual/ref-guide/s1-modules-ethernet.html and http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref- guide/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html#S2-NETWORKSCRIPTS-INTERFACES- CHAN for some good setup information. I've set up bonding a number of times and been very impressed with the performance. I used a mode which isn't discussed in the two URL's above but is discussed in the kernel source - balance-alb or 6. Read the docs in the kernel source under Documentation/networking/bonding.txt. Mode 6 really offers the best of all worlds - no special switch configuration is required and it balances transmit and receive traffic pretty much transparently. My luck has been good with bonding. I am afraid I have not done TEQL so I can't speak to it. Cheers, Thomas
