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[Veritas-bu] Trunking in solaris...

2006-12-04 11:47:37
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Trunking in solaris...
From: Karl.Rossing at Federated.CA (Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA)
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:47:37 -0600
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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