Fw: [Sussex] Anyone into bondage?

[Brendan Whelan]

Jon and Ronan.

Thank you for all your help. I will be out today and on-site next week so I
will continue with the bonding when I get back.

Brendan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Fautley" <jfautley at redhat.com>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [Sussex] Anyone into bondage?


> Brendan Whelan wrote:
> > Ronan,
> >
> > Whoops - my spellckecker change "Netgear" to "Net" - this version is
correct
> >
> >  Re: "Good thought.  I've tried bonding where one of the cards was an
old
> > 10mb 3Com 509, which didn't support link detection and had no joy at
> > all."
> >
> >  The odd thing is that the problem card is new - a Netgear GA311 RevA1.
>
> Doesn't matter - if the card doesn't support link detection then Bonding
> won't work succesfully on it. I suggest going for something like an
> Intel or a 3com card (new ones) as these are 'Server Class' cards and
> should work pretty well.
>
> I'd personally avoid the 'budget' cards like Realtek and Broadcom for
> use in a server environment - stick with something reliable, and PDQ
> (Pretty Damn Quick) like Intel :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brendan Whelan" <b_whelan at mistral.co.uk>
> > To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:24 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Sussex] Anyone into bondage?
> >
> >
> >
> >>Ronan,
> >>
> >>Re: "Good thought.  I've tried bonding where one of the cards was an old
> >>10mb 3Com 509, which didn't support link detection and had no joy at
> >>all."
> >>
> >>The odd thing is that the problem card is new - a Net GA311 RevA1.
> >>
> >>Brendan
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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