I heard about teaming technology.
It can help you to do that.
----start info from intel sites----
http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/ans/index.htm
http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/ans/teaming.htm
Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT) - Can be mixed Intel adapter types/speeds as
long as there is at least one server adapter in the team. Primary adapter
will pass it's MAC and L3 address to the failover adapter. Implemented in
Microsoft Windows* 2000 and Windows NT* 4 , NetWare* 4.1x and above, SCO
UnixWare* (10/100), and Linux.
----end info from intel sites----
When I test AFT last year, it need 1minutes or more to failover.
Regards,
-Mansu Kim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick McAndrew [mailto:PMcAndrewIZZATstudentadvantage.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 2:48 AM
> To: 'lb-lIZZATvegan.net'
> Subject: RE: [load balancing] switch redundancy
>
>
> The two nic's will be connected to two layer two switches.
> The switches will be connected to a pair of load balancers.
> The servers will be in a seperate vlan, their network will be
> a RFC1918 compliant one.
>
> I am assuming the server nic's would be in seperate bridge groups?
>
> I am going to be running HSRP on the switches, but I'm
> wondering how to get the server to notice when a switch is
> down, and use the other interface.
>
> Does anyone have experience with doing that? If I don't make
> myself clear, email me.
>
> Thanks
> Pat
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephane LITKOWSKI [mailto:st_litkowskiIZZAThotmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:48 AM
> > To: lb-lIZZATvegan.net
> > Subject: Re: [load balancing] switch redundancy
> >
> >
> > What r u talking about ? Layer 2 switches ? or Layer 3 or 4
> switches ?
> > Are the server nic's bridged between them ?
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Patrick McAndrew" <PMcAndrewIZZATstudentadvantage.com>
> > To: <lb-lIZZATvegan.net>
> > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:29 PM
> > Subject: [load balancing] switch redundancy
> >
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm wondering how some of you use switch redundancy.
> > >
> > > Here's the situation:
> > > I want my webservers to have two nic's in each box.
> > > The two nic's will be connected to two differant
> switches. They will
> > > have an identical configuration, I don't want to
> > do anything
> > > fancy, just provibe switch redundancy.
> > >
> > > What is a good way to go about doing this? STP? How will
> > the servers know
> > > not to use one nic as opposed to the other?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > > Pat
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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