Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:59:24 +0100 | From | Laurent Deniel <> | Subject | Re: Ethernet NIC dual homing |
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willy tarreau wrote: > > Hi Laurent, > > > Does someone know if there is some work in the area of NIC > > dual homing ? > > I have implemented this for 2.2 kernel a while ago, > and Chad Tindel has completed the port to 2.4. Some other > contributors have added features such as XOR distribution. You can > take a look at it, kernel 2.4 patches are on : > > http://sf.net/projects/bonding/ > > and 2.2 patches are on : > > http://www-miaif.lip6.fr/willy/linux-patches/bonding/ >
Thanks for the pointers.
Currently only the link status is used to monitor a NIC. So it would be nice if an ioctl was available to force a NIC switch-over (especially in active-backup policy). This could be used by a user-space daemon in case for instance no traffic is detected.
I see that the bonding driver is included in 2.2.18, what is its status in 2.4.x ?
Regards,
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