topic Re: NIC Teaming in Operating System - HP-UX

NIC Teaming

Mark_433 — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:52:49 GMT

Is it possible to team two NICs in one server but keep one static IP address rather than changing to DHCP?

Re: NIC Teaming

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:55:38 GMT

Hi,

Only possible with Auto Port Aggregation. But you need to pay $$ for that. And APA doesn't work with all the configurations.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/J4240-90016/J4240-90016.html

-Sri

Re: NIC Teaming

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:01:25 GMT

The tool for that is called Auto Port Agregation.

The best way to use it is to have none of those nice two or four port multiport cards. This give you more bandwidth and though its one piece of hardware better reliability too.

Of course Auto Port Aggregation costs money.

I was told a few years ago that APA will not work with two individual nic cards or every nic card that will work on a HP-9000 server.

I was told more recently that this is possible depending on the NIC configutation.

SEP