Nic Teaming : help about active/active setup and Active/passive setup...

[Tom Brown]

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> I'm running PE1950 and 2950 servers under RHEL5 x64 with Cisco network switchs (model 3750 stack).
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> I'm looking for informations about best way to do "bonding" with 2 network cards with the Broadcom (onboard) cards (and additional intel card on PCI too sometimes).
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> There seem to have 2 types of bonding I am interested in (each should connect nic1 on switch1 and nic2 on switch2 for better availability) :
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> 1) active/active : cisco etherchannel ? (but I have a maximum of such things on my cisco Stack allowed...so I must keep such a setup for very high load bandwidth servers...)
> 2) active/passive
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> How should I proceed ?
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> Thanks a lot, I need to do this this Sunday on few servers...
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what have you tried so far and what issues have you encountered?