Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 2011-08-09 16:46, Herman wrote: > Sorry if this is covered elsewhere. > > I know the Linux Bonding FAQ is supposed to talk about this, but I > didn't see anything specific in it on what parameters to use. > > Basically, I want to bond two GigE ports between two servers which are > connected with straight cables with no switch and use them for DRBD. > > I tried the various bonding modes with "miimon=100", but none of them > worked. Say the eth1 ports on both servers were cabled together, and the > same for eth5. Then, I could create the bond with eth1 and eth5. > However, if I downed one of the ports on one server, say eth1, it would > failover on that server to eth5, but the other server would not > failover to eth5. > > Eventually, I decided to use "arp_interval=100" and "arp_ip_target=<ip > of other bonded pair>" instead of "miimon=100". This seems to work as > I expected, with the bond properly failing over. > > Is this the right way to do this kind of bonding? > > Also, right now I'm using "mode=active-backup". Would one of the other > modes allow higher throughput and still allow automatic failover and > transparency to DRBD? use balance-rr and e.g. miimon=100, that should do fine Regards, Andreas > > Thanks, > Herman > > > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 294 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20110809/6099b785/attachment.pgp>