Dan beat me to it. RAC is supposed to have separate public and private interfaces. On Jan 10, 2008 10:05 AM, Dan Norris <dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michael, > > I see a huge problem and very likely a support issue as well. Basically > what he's saying is that the host will have a *single* logical network > interface. That *single* interface will need to serve as the private and > public interface and that's where Oracle Support may have some major > problems. > > If these blades only support 2 NICs (and you have no opportunities to > expand them), then I'd elect to leave the redundancy aside and take a NIC > failure as a whole node failure. Since the only other choice is to combine > public and private networks over a single logical interface, removing > redundancy so you have 2 separate logical/physical interfaces would be a > favorable choice. > > Dan > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Michael McMullen <ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:27:11 AM > Subject: rac network question > > Our SA's are just setting up some HP blades for us for a rac and he sent > me this below. Just wondering if anyone on the list sees a problem. > > > > "Also, since the c class blades have only 2 physical nics, we are going to > trunk multiple vlans through the same bonded interface. Makes for a > slightly weird setup; you may want to check it out and play with it before > this goes live." > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'