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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am not into Beowulf stuff (yet) but am working on
bonding because it is fun.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have successfully configured a Linux box to do
round robin mode bonding with 2 NICs. I connected the 2 NICs to a plain old
low-tech switch and everything seems to work just fine. I am able to access this
Linux host from other hosts connected to the same switch.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My question is what is the impact/effect of doing
round-robin bonding on a switch that does not have support for
trunking?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) Am I getting 200Mbps? I cannot test because
I don't have other hosts with 2 NICs nor do I have enough hosts to create
artificial network load.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) What is the proper syntax to enable miimon
in /etc/modules.conf? (on RedHat 7.3)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3) I tried to obtain DHCP address for bond0
(ifcfg-bond0) but could not get it to work. It works fine if I specify the IP,
netmask and other information. Is there any known problems between bonding and
obtaining address through DHCP?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Many many thanks!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andrew</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>