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[Veritas-bu] Trunking in solaris...

2006-12-04 11:57:23
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Trunking in solaris...
From: ssesar at mitre.org (Steven L. Sesar)
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:57:23 -0500
GiGE trunking is absolutely supported with Solaris. The OP can start here:

http://www.sun.com/products/networking/ethernet/gigaswift/index.xml

--Steve

Karl.Rossing at Federated.CA wrote:
>
> Last i checked, you can only trunk 10/100 ports together.
>
> GB ports are not supported. That makes sense since the server's I/O 
> would be severally bogged down.
>
> veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu wrote on 12/01/2006 11:57:00 AM:
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> >
> > > I`am new to solaris and wonder if anyone know if it's possible to =
> > > trunk/team
> > > several network cards under solaris? If so, how do you do it?=20
> >
> > All versions of Solaris support IPMP in software.  This allows for a bit
> > of outbound load sharing, but isn't really appropriate for load
> > balancing incoming data (as you might want on a netbackup server).  It
> > does provide you with failover though, and you can balance the incoming
> > traffic manually.  If all you need is failover, then it may be
> > sufficient.
> >
> > SunTrunking is an extra application that you can run on Solaris.  It
> > only supports certain hardware in certain combinations.  It's a cost
> > purchase for versions prior to Solaris 10.
> >
> > Solaris 10 can use SunTrunking as well, but also allows for link
> > aggregation of any networking hardware that uses gld3 drivers.  This is
> > built into Solaris and doesn't require extra software.
> >
> > IP Mulitpathing (IPMP) and Link Aggregation configuration details should
> > be in the administrators guide for the version of Solaris you have (if
> > supported).
> >
> > --
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