I was currious about setting up load balancing for my company fileserver. This machine get's heavy usage and we would like to load balance the traffic over two 1 Gigabit NICS. How would this be best accomplished? Should we set up a firewall rules that will NAT for that machine or does samba have a built in mechinism? -- David Sonenberg Systems / Network Administrator Stroz Friedberg, LLC 15 Maiden Lane 15th Floor New York, NY 10038 Tel 212.981.6527 Fax 917.495.4918 This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No right to confidential or privileged treatment of this message is waived or lost by any error in transmission. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail or by telephone at 212.981.6540, delete the message and all copies from your system and destroy any hard copies. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient.
I think bonding its a good solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonding Regards, On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:27:22 -0500, David Sonenberg <dsonenberg@strozllc.com> wrote:> I was currious about setting up load balancing for my company > fileserver. This machine get's heavy usage and we would like to load > balance the traffic over two 1 Gigabit NICS. How would this be best > accomplished? Should we set up a firewall rules that will NAT for that > machine or does samba have a built in mechinism? > -- > David Sonenberg > Systems / Network Administrator > Stroz Friedberg, LLC > 15 Maiden Lane > 15th Floor > New York, NY 10038 > Tel 212.981.6527 > Fax 917.495.4918 > > This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain > confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No right to > confidential or privileged treatment of this message is waived or lost > by any error in transmission. If you have received this message in > error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail or by telephone at > 212.981.6540, delete the message and all copies from your system and > destroy any hard copies. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, > disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message if you are > not the intended recipient. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >-- ======================= Sp0oKeR Labs RHCE / LPIC-I Desenvolvedor BRMAlinux spooker@br.kernelnewbies.org ========================
> I was currious about setting up load balancing for my company > fileserver. This machine get's heavy usage and we would like to load > balance the traffic over two 1 Gigabit NICS. How would this be best > accomplished? Should we set up a firewall rules that will NAT for > that machine or does samba have a built in mechinism?This is typically done lower level than the applications running on your file server. You probably want cards that support teaming, going to a switch that supports it. There may be a cheaper way, hardware wise, but it's the most logical. -- -- Paul Gienger Office: 701-281-1884 Applied Engineering Inc. Systems Architect Fax: 701-281-1322 URL: www.ae-solutions.com mailto: pgienger@ae-solutions.com