aggregate ethernet ports under Solaris

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I have been looking for info on how to aggregate 2 ore 3 NIC's into into one big pipe. Any advice would be appreciated.
-Chuck

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For Solaris 7 or earlier, look at Sun Trunking software. Make sure your switch is compatible with Sun Trunking software. If you are running Solaris 8 10/00 or later, you can use IP multi-pathing which is built into the kernel. Look at http://www.sun.com/docs and search for IP multi-pathing.

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More advanced IP routing software with allow you to load balance across multiple network interfaces. As I recall, there are also configuration switches in the Linux kernel to permit this.

I also think (but can't remember, it's been so long) that gated routing software will load balance cross multiple interfaces. However, gated is appears to be commerical now.....

http://www.gated.org/

But lots of older freeware versions abound!

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gated

http://www.unix.kg/ftp/pub/network/routing/gated/

ftp://ftp.gated.merit.edu/research.and.development/gated/

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Thanks for the good info :cool:

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Are you going to be doing any performance test with base and after results? That would be interesting.