[Lustre-discuss] How do you make an MGS/OSS listen on 2 NICs?

[Lundgren, Andrew]

So the only way to use two nics at once is to bond?  I am more for redundancy rather than increased throughput.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: He.Huang at Sun.COM [mailto:He.Huang at Sun.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:34 AM
> To: Lundgren, Andrew
> Cc: 'Lustre-discuss at clusterfs.com'
> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] How do you make an MGS/OSS
> listen on 2 NICs?
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:28:33AM -0700, Lundgren, Andrew wrote:
> >    I am running on CentOS 5 distribution without adding any
> updates from
> >    CentOS. I am using the lustre 1.6.4.1 kernel and software.
> >
> >
> >
> >    I have two NICs that run though different switches.
> >
> >
> >
> >    I have the lustre options in my modprobe.conf to look like this:
> >
> >
> >
> >    options lnet networks=tcp0(eth1,eth0)
> >
>
> This way of interface bonding is now a deprecated lnet
> feature. Please refer to:
> http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual16_HTML/DynamicHTM
> L-13-1.html
>
> Isaac
>