adapter teaming

Top Page
Attachments:
Message as email
+ (text/plain)
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: plug@arcticmail.complugarcticmail.com
Date:  
Subject: adapter teaming
Wouldn't it also be OK in BIND to have

samba-1      IN A  192.168.0.1
samba-2      IN A  192.168.0.2


samba    60  IN A  192.168.0.1
samba    60  IN A  192.168.0.2


1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR samba-1
2.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR samba-2

and let "samba" be a round-robin DNS entry
that alternates between 192.168.0.1 and
192.168.0.2. I put the sixty-second TTL
on the "samba" RR so that if one of the
NICs dies, you can simply comment out
the line for that NIC.

Also, "samba-1" (or "samba-2") can be
used to specifically hit a particular
interface.


D

* On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:32:02AM -0700, wrote:
>
>
> \_ At any rate, I have a Samba server that get's hit pretty hard, I know
> \_ the choke is in the net performance. Therefore, I would like to
> \_ "Team" up two nics on it to give it a bit of a boost in net performance.
>
> Hmm. What about giving the machine two standard 100M configs, then
> half of your other boxen think that 'samba-1' is the location of the
> files, the other half 'samba-2'.
>
> It's not graceful, but you'll get both nics pumping data that way.
>
> David
>
> ________________________________________________
> See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail.
>
> Plug-discuss mailing list -
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss