nic question

[Jeff Disney]

Hello All!

I have two network cards in my server and I am using serviceguard, do I leave the lan card that will act as the failover interface on the server unconfigured on the server itself? Will serviceguard handle the configuration in the case of failover? Thanks in advance.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Jeff,

1) Yes
2) Yes

You have to have that lan instance designated in the cluster ascii file immediately after the primary NIC.

Rgds,
Jeff

[melvyn burnard]

As long as hte standby card can talk to hte configured card, and voice versa, hten that is all you need to do, the binary htat gets created will know how to handle hte lan switching.
One way to check is when you do your cmquerycl command, in hte ascii file you create you should see a comment line stating lanx is possible standby for lany. If not, then htere is a coimmiunication issue hta needs fixing first.

[Pramod_4]

Yes, it has to left unconfigured.

It should be listed next to the primary lan in your cluster ascii config file.

Both NICs must be hooked to the same VLAN. Use link loop if they can talk each other at the link level.

Good luck,

Pramod