Dan Norris schrieb: > It was my understanding that active-active required trunking capability > on the switches so that the switches know that both of the network ports > are going to the same host. I don't know if that capability is available > on these switches. That's why I chose active-passive. that's correct. active-passive is fine if you want HA. > As for Oracle support, I know that Oracle's biggest issue is supporting > kernels that are not tainted. I was thinking of the 3rd party intel or > broadcom software that the customer is considering putting on these > nodes--not sure if or what Oracle would say about that. If anyone has > experience with NIC teaming software from Intel or Broadcom on Linux, > please let me know your experiences with it. i've used iANS (intel) and BASP (broadcom). both worked but broadcom discontinued BASP, they recommend Linux Bonding for 2.6 kernels. > Thanks for all the replies. Please let me know if I'm wrong about my > assumption above that special switch trunking configuration is needed to > enable active-active. I believe it is required per the bonding.txt file > in the kernel source that says this in the sections about active-active: > "This mode requires the switch to have the appropriate ports configured > for "etherchannel" or "trunking."" We're trying to do all this stuff > without doing any real configuration on the switches. you're right. active-active needs some support from the switch. active-backup should work with any switch. back to your problem: have you disabled spanning-tree on both switches? regards, -ap -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l