[Veritas-bu] Compaq Network Teaming interfere with Backups
2002-04-12 17:06:14
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[Veritas-bu] Compaq Network Teaming interfere with Backups |
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ddunham AT taos DOT com (Darren Dunham) |
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Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:06:14 -0700 (PDT) |
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> Not sure how compaq teaming works, but Sun's Trunking does
> not give you an advantage between just two servers if you are
> going through a hub/switch as it picks a path based upon the
> destinations MAC address will force the same path every time
> for the same destination.
That's false on the Sun side. There is a setting to use MAC addressing
or do round-robin. If you set it, then it uses all the ports, even for
talking to a single device.
Now, you can't do anything about the incoming traffic. That's going to
be handled by whatever device or switch you connect to...
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