| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) | 
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference | 
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM | 
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 | 
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 10068 | 
| Total number of notes: | 35879 | 
    My customer is an Internet Service Providor (ISP) and wants to be able
    to load share connections from the internet across 2 network
    interfaces. Redundancy is catered for by using ASE but not at the
    network level, if an interface card fails, rather than failing over the
    cluster, they want to continue normally.
    
    I do not see LSF suiting these requirements, so I would like to be able
    to configure 2 network interfaces into 1 logical interface. Apparently
    SGI have this facility, do we ?
    
    Regards
    John
    
    
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| 9318.1 | X-posted | SIOG::J_LONG | Tue Apr 01 1997 18:53 | 8 | |
|     I have X-posted this query to the ASE conference note:1976
    
    
    Any takers ?
    
    Regards
    John Long
    
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| 9318.2 | not yet | SMURF::DUSTIN | Wed Apr 02 1997 12:04 | 6 | |
|     There is no way to logically group two interfaces into one
    virtual interface today.  This is part of a list of features
    for a future release which are currently under development...
    
    John
    
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| 9318.3 | BACHUS::DEVOS | Manu Devos DEC/SI Brussels 856-7539 | Wed Apr 02 1997 15:26 | 9 | |
|     John,
    
    Can you have a look in note ASE 1970.0
    
    If I did a mistake, can you mail me your comments.
    
    Thanks, Manu.
    
    
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| 9318.4 | aliases are IP only | SMURF::DUSTIN | Wed Apr 02 1997 16:57 | 10 | |
|     Your solution relies on moving aliases between two interfaces,
    which is not what .0 is asking (they want network level
    redundancy, the way I am reading it).
    
    Put another way, your solution works for IP, but not for LAT,
    DECnet, and other protocols, which a network level redundancy
    would solve.
    
    John
    
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| 9318.5 | It's not what I wanted, however... | SIOG::J_LONG | Mon Apr 07 1997 18:01 | 8 | |
|     This is true, but it would appear to be the best we can provide, I
    would prefer if we could assign the same IP address to two network
    interface cards on the same system.
    
    
    Regards
    John
    
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