Bonding with crossover cables?

[Mike Reinehr]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 09:04 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
> Anybody here using bonded nics with only crossover cables, no hubs or
> switches?
>
> I find it necessary to speed up the connections between two servers,
> bonding is the way to go and I was wondering if hub/switch is required? It
> has to be done in a low budget environment... Seems odd that I've never
> tried this before...
>
> Thanks, in advance.
>
> Jerry

Jerry,

Yes, I have three servers, here, cross-connected for server-to-server backup 
purposes. It seems to be working. They all use Tyan Thunder AMD64 boards 
which each come with two Gigabit & one 100base0T ethernet connections.

Two of the servers are my regular workhorse servers, while the third functions 
as a backup servers. Each of the two workhorse servers are cross-connected by 
means of the gigabit ports to the third server.

The hardest part for me was learning how to configure 
my /etc/network/interfaces file (Debian) so that the assignment of ip numbers 
and routing was done correctly.

> P.S. For those not offended, Merry Christmas.

Likewise!

cmr
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