All,
If samba is on a server with two NIC cards, can samb.conf be
configured to use the other NIC if one goes down? Can this be done at
the server level? Or does this have to me dealt with at the network
level (i.e. load balance)?
Cheers all,
Tony
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Tony Ricker
Technology Coordinator
SLUCare - P.M.O.
St. Louis University
Phone: 314.977.6844
E-mail: rickera2@slu.edu
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"In the beginners mind, there
are many possibilities. In the
experts mind, there are few"
- Shunryu Suzuki
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"Think Different"
Typicall NIC Failover is accomplished thru "teaming" software, provided by the vendor of the NIC card. I have seen Intel pro 10/100 and compaq NIC cards teamed. Go to the vendor of your NIC card(s) and find out if they offer teaming software for their NIC cards. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Ricker" <rickera2@SLU.EDU> To: "Samba" <samba@lists.samba.org>; "Samba NT-Dom" <samba-ntdom@lists.samba.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:18 PM Subject: Samba NIC Failover> All, > If samba is on a server with two NIC cards, can samb.conf be > configured to use the other NIC if one goes down? Can this be done at > the server level? Or does this have to me dealt with at the network > level (i.e. load balance)? > > Cheers all, > > Tony > ------------------------------- > Tony Ricker > Technology Coordinator > SLUCare - P.M.O. > St. Louis University > Phone: 314.977.6844 > E-mail: rickera2@slu.edu > ------------------------------- > "In the beginners mind, there > are many possibilities. In the > experts mind, there are few" > - Shunryu Suzuki > ------------------------------- > "Think Different" > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
Tony, I've not tried this before, but the Beowulf project has a program called ifenslave that is supposed to take standard nics and make them behave as one (a "teaming" software like Tom mentioned). The url for the program is: http://www.beowulf.org/software/bonding.html There are also changes that need to be made to the kernel to support the channel bonding of the nics. If anybody has tried this out I'd be horribly interested to hear of your experience. AE -----Original Message----- From: Tom Bartos [mailto:tbartos@tombartos.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 5:58 PM To: Tony Ricker; Samba; Samba NT-Dom Subject: Re: Samba NIC Failover Typicall NIC Failover is accomplished thru "teaming" software, provided by the vendor of the NIC card. I have seen Intel pro 10/100 and compaq NIC cards teamed. Go to the vendor of your NIC card(s) and find out if they offer teaming software for their NIC cards. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Ricker" <rickera2@SLU.EDU> To: "Samba" <samba@lists.samba.org>; "Samba NT-Dom" <samba-ntdom@lists.samba.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:18 PM Subject: Samba NIC Failover> All, > If samba is on a server with two NIC cards, can samb.conf be > configured to use the other NIC if one goes down? Can this be done at > the server level? Or does this have to me dealt with at the network > level (i.e. load balance)? > > Cheers all, > > Tony > ------------------------------- > Tony Ricker > Technology Coordinator > SLUCare - P.M.O. > St. Louis University > Phone: 314.977.6844 > E-mail: rickera2@slu.edu > ------------------------------- > "In the beginners mind, there > are many possibilities. In the > experts mind, there are few" > - Shunryu Suzuki > ------------------------------- > "Think Different" > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >-- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
nmbd will complain bitterly about the extra responses it's seeing to broadcast queries if you do this. -----Original Message----- From: Moeller Daniel (QI/CCE2-SI) * [mailto:Daniel.Moeller@de.bosch.com] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 4:10 AM To: 'Tony Ricker'; Samba; Samba NT-Dom Subject: AW: Samba NIC Failover Hi Tony, a simple approach will be to configure both NICs and configure Samba to use both cards. DNS can be used to assign IP addresse of both NICs to one host name. If one NIC fails the other one will still be running.