Teaming Intel PRO 1000VT Quad Port 1GbE NIC, PCIe-4 on redhat

[Aly Dharshi]

What you are speaking of is called bonding. Do a google search for this:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-bond-or-team-multiple-network-interfaces-nic-into-single-interface.html
http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/question/static/linux-ethernet-bonding-driver-howto.php

It should entirely possible, there is nothing specific to the 2950-III. 
Also beware, if you are trying to do something special like 802.3ad aka 
lacp, you may need your switch or network gear to support this.

I would leave one port as an administration port (so you can still get 
into the box if anything went bear stearns) and bond the other 3. 3 
Should be sufficient for bonding. If you do 802.3.ad you may want to put 
  each of these bonded links on different switches which would give you 
HA if any one of the switches went away. Just a suggestion.

HTH.

Cheers,

ASD.


Drew Weaver wrote:
> Hi there we are trying to order a 2950-III for some storage purposes
> and we need to team some NICs.
> 
> Has anyone had any success getting the Intel PRO 1000VT Quad Port
> 1GbE NIC, PCIe-4 NIC which is available installed on the 2950-III to
> team under Redhat?
> 
> Also, this is slightly unrelated to linux, but we have quite a few
> Intel Pro 1000 GT Quad Port NICs laying around but I cannot find
> anything that says whether or not they will fit in a 'rack mount'
> chassis whether they are too long, short, whatever. Does anyone know?
> 
> 
> Thanks, -Drew
> 
> 
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