Bonding with crossover cables?

[Jerry McBride]

On Sunday 18 December 2005 13:33, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the info. Looks as though I'm going to use the cross cables sans 
switch box. Can't wait to get started.

Cheers.

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