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How to bridge LAN cards in HP-UX

 
Amanpreet Singh
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How to bridge LAN cards in HP-UX

There are 3 LAN cards in my HP-UX RP3440 server. I want to bridge 2 LAN cards. Can anyone tell me how to bridge them?
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Ivan Krastev
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Re: How to bridge LAN cards in HP-UX

You can use APA (auto-port aggregation software) - http://www.hp.com/products1/serverconnectivity/adapters/apa_overview.html

This is an additional product and must be purchased separately.

regards,
ivan
Amanpreet Singh
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Re: How to bridge LAN cards in HP-UX

isnt it possible without using this software?
Yogeeraj_1
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Re: How to bridge LAN cards in HP-UX

hi,

APA is a licensed product and i think that there are not other free software available for HP-UX.

kind regards
yogeeraj
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Amanpreet Singh
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Re: How to bridge LAN cards in HP-UX

ok...thank u both for the inputs, but if anyone knows if it is possible by using some free software or any other method, kindly reply ASAP.
Court Campbell
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Re: How to bridge LAN cards in HP-UX

Good luck with that. APA is reasonably priced compared to some of the other HP software. I believe it is around $1100 US.
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HGN
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Re: How to bridge LAN cards in HP-UX

Hi

We have been using APA for 3 years now which is very good, like Court mentioned it is not that expensive considering the fact that it is licensed from HP and they also support it.

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Rgds

HGN
rick jones
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Re: How to bridge LAN cards in HP-UX

APA is not for "bridging." APA is for "trunking." Bridging and trunking are very different things.

Trunking/bonding/aggregation is making two or more NICs appear as one NIC to the upper layers of the stack.

Bridging is forwarding frames at layer-2 from one LAN. IE it is what a switch does - and "in the beginning" switches were called multi-port bridges. (N.B. bridging is similar to, but distinct from _routing_ which operates at layer-3)

I don't think there is any _bridging_ software provided by HP for HP-UX, but if you can find some which uses DLPI as the link-layer interface, you could probably port it without too much trouble. And if it doesn't use DLPI for the link-layer interface, you could probably still port it without too too much trouble if the link-layer interface part were sutiably abstracted.
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Amanpreet Singh
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Re: How to bridge LAN cards in HP-UX

thanks to all of u. fortunately i am using this server in cluster environment, using HP service guard cluster software, which itself can configure 2 LAN cards in Active/Standby mode. this is enough for me.