APA over different speed NICs...

[support_5]

Hi all,

I was wondering... Is it possible to have Auto Port Aggregation working over two NICs which have different speeds? ie, one is a 1Gbit ethernet, the other is slower on 100Mbit. They are connected to different switches and aren't meant to provide high speeds but rather high availability of the network connection. The reason I ask is that rumor has it that you cannot have APA configured over two differently configured NICs (in terms of speed anyway), hence my curiosity.

Can anyone shed any light on this issue?

Cheers,

- Andy Gray

[Scott Van Kalken]

I think from my reading of the docs that they have to be the same speed.

but then again, there's a lot of stuff that the docs say you can't do that you can.

[support_5]

Yeah, thought so. Anyone else have comments on this?

What about MC/ServiceGuard? I have also heard rumors saying that for a lan card failover, you cannot have the lan cards configured at different speeds. This seems to me to be very strange, because as I understand it, it simply performs an ifconfig on the lan card and assigns the IP to that lan card. Nothing there that would suggest they have to be the same speed. APA I could uderstand because of the higher complexity in APA, but SG? I find it hard to believe. What do you all think?

Cheers,

- Andy Gray