APA with HP-UX 11.23

[Khaled_6]

Hello,

I have rx8620 server running HP-UX 11.23.
I need to configure APA on 2 NICs as active-active (Double B.W).

Can any one tell me how to configure APA with HP-UX 11.23 and what needs to be enabled on the switch ports in order to recognize the APA configuration.

The switch Brand is CISCO catalyst 6500.

Thank you.

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[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

If I am right you need to configure ether channel on the switch end acroos the ports which you are going to connect to these ports.

Apart from this define one of the four algorithms for load balancing.

# LB_MAC - This algorithm uses a portion of the
# destination MAC address to determine
# how data flows are distributed across
# physical ports in a link aggregation.
#
# The recommended configuration for
# this algorithm is Server to Switch.
#
# LB_IP - This algorithm uses a portion of the
# destination IP address to determine
# how data flows are distributed across
# physical ports in a link aggregation.
#
# The recommended configuration for
# this algorithm is Server to Router.
# Note: At this point, Server-Router
# configuration is unsupported.
#
# LB_PORT - This algorithm uses the TCP or UDP
# port number to determine how data
# flows are distributed across
# physical ports in a link aggregation.
#
# The recommended configuration for
# this algorithm is Server to Server.
#
# LB_CPU - This algorithm uses the systems
# CPU's to determine how data flows
# are distributed across the physical
# ports in a link aggregation.
#
# The default value is LB_MAC.

HTH,
Devender

[D Block 2]

when you say: APA config - do you mean big-trunk load-balancer ? if so, what is the switch-model name ?