[Lustre-discuss] bonding and multiple OST per OSS
Eric Barton
eric at barton.org.uk
Tue Oct 23 12:30:00 PDT 2007
Regarding your network questions...
> In reading the manual about bonding (we will need to bond our Gige)
> I get the impression that we should let lustre take care of it and
> not use the linux bonding drivers. Am I correct in this assumption?
I'm afraid not.
> If so I would have 2 interfaces each with their own IP, how does
the
> client know to use both interfaces?
The network driver connects on the "first" IP, the connection
handshake
exchanges interface information and additional connections may be
created to exploit them. This functionality has been retained for
backwards compatibility, but we now recommend you use the linux
bonding
drivers.
Cheers,
Eric
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