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xhawk's avatar
xhawk
Level 4
10 years ago

Can members of a bonded-NIC be configured as VCS LLT links?

Scenario-1: SFRAC 5.0.1 and above,such as 5.1, 5.1SP1, 6.0, 6.1 ...... HPUX 11.31-0909 Oracle 10.2.0.4 RAC   lan3 and lan4 are bonded to be lan901, which is configured as Oracle RAC he...
  • mikebounds's avatar
    10 years ago

    You need unique IPs for LLT, as LLT over Ethernet uses the MAC address at Layer 2, and does not use the IP.  I am not familiar with NIC bonding in HP-ux, but in Solaris if you use IPMP then you can use the IPMP group to load balance between 2 NICs for IP traffic, and you can use the individual NICs in LLT.  So with HP-ux, if the O/S allows you to access the underlying NICs in a bond, then they should work in LLT, but I don't know if HP-ux bonding masks the underlying interfaces from the O/S so you can only use the bond (like MS windows, where when you create a bond, the underlying NICs are no longer visable).

    Mike