topic Re: Enable SLB using a SLES Server in Operating System - Linux

Enable SLB using a SLES Server

Daniel Pilawa — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:46:15 GMT

Hello,

how can i enable Switch-Assisted Load Balancing (SLB) by using a SLES OS.
I know, how i can enable it under the Network Utility Tool under Windows. But how it is unter Linux?

Thank you

Re: Enable SLB using a SLES Server

Michael Leu — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:19:10 GMT

In Linux this is called 'bonding'.

There are different modes which are described in the bonding.txt:
http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
See '2. Bonding Driver Options' parameter 'mode'.
Not sure which of those matches best to SLB.

In SLES you can use YaST to add a new interface of type 'Bonding'. The hardware interfaces have to also be configured as 'startmode off' and without a IP, only then can they be added to the newly created bond0 interface.

Re: Enable SLB using a SLES Server

Daniel Pilawa — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:34:42 GMT

There is no SLB mode in the bonding configuration of Linux...