From: Aldridge, Robert E. (REAldridge@mcdermott.com)
Date: Fri Aug 23 2002 - 14:22:04 EDT
Thanks for the quick answers!
Link Aggregation is not supported in 5.1 , but is supported in 5.1A patch
kit 1.
Reference:
http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51A_HTML/ARH8WD
TE/FTRSXXXX.HTM#anch_0008
1.4 Link Aggregation Support
This release supports network link aggregation, or trunking. Administrators
can combine two or more physical Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) to
create a link aggregation group. The upper-layer software sees this link
aggregation group as a single logical interface. Link aggregation provides
the following capabilities:
Increased network bandwidth, depending on the number and type of NICs
Load distribution across all ports of a link aggregation group
Failure detection and and failover for DEGPA and DE60x NICs
Link aggregation is supported only on server-to-server and server-to-switch
point-to-point connections.
See the Network Administration: Connections manual for information on
configuring link aggregation groups.
See lag(7) for additional information about link aggregation.
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>
> On an ES40 system, can multiple ethernet cards be grouped together to
> increase bandwidth?
>
>
> In the Tru64/HP-UX conference-call on August 22, there was mention of
using
> "LAG" - Link Aggregation Protocol -- to create more bandwidth from
multiple
> NICs (network interface cards).
>
> Is this feature available in Tru64 5.1 ? Or is it a feature in some
future
> release of Tru64?
>
> I'm only aware of NetRAIN, which provides redundancy but not the ability
to
> group the ethernets into a wider pipe.
>
>
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