peer-to-peer networking

[Tuan Nguyen]

Hello,

I am having 2 HP9000 servers running 11.11 and 11.0 which are on DNS and communicating with all nodes on the network. I would like to transter large amount of data from one server to another without consume a lot of community bandwidth. I am thinking of setting up a peer-to-peer network just between the two server, possibly add an extra network card on each server and use a cross-over cable. My questions:
How do I configure this in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf?
Once the communication is established, I will have to exportfs the filesystems from one system so the other system can mount to and copy the data. Is there other way of transfering data without using NFS because NFS is slow?
Just an idea. I don't know if it is feasible or not. Had anybody done this before or have any idea how to do this? Please help. I appreciate your input.

Thank you,

Tuan Nguyen

[P.Prakash_1]

Hi Tuan Nguyen

You can use "rcp" or "ftp" if the files are in limited numbers.

My suggestion would be to create a "tar" archive of the entire data which I need to move and do a ftp.

Rgds

Prakash

[Tuan Nguyen]

Prakash,

Thank you for your reply.

The remaining question is how to setup the peer-to-peer network between the servers. Is there anybody can help me?

Thanks in advance.

Tuan Nguyen

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi Tuan,

As your question is specific to HP-UX, you'd be better off asking in the HP-UX networking forum.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/categoryhome.do?categoryId=245

Cheers,

Rob

[Tuan Nguyen]

Rob,

Thank you very much for the direction. I will post my question there.

Tuan