Broadcom NIC team on openSUSE 10.2 or SLES 10 (reposted from Networking)

Question

Hello,

Been searching for instructions on how to set it up, closest thing I found was this Dell Power Solutions article from 2003 (Using NIC Teaming to Achieve High Availability on Linux Platforms):

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/ps1q03_bhutani?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz

however, unable to find the RPMs it mentions. Any recommendations would be most appreciated.. :-)

(reposted from Networking..)

ak4life · Answer

After more research, found that there are several ways to accomplish this (darn Linux, when I was working with Windows and NetWare, there was usually exactly one way to do anything and it was usually simple). Just kidding, Linux rocks.

The solution that ended up working for me was to use bonding and miimon. My openSUSE 10.2 install already included the necessary modules:

# modprobe --list | grep mii
/lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.1-xenpae/kernel/drivers/net/mii.ko
# modprobe --list | grep bonding
/lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.1-xenpae/kernel/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.ko

So all I had to do is follow this article:
http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=3929220&sliceId=SAL_Public&dialogID=12982040&stateId=0%200%2012980214

And it's working like a charm.

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Broadcom NIC team on openSUSE 10.2 or SLES 10 (reposted from Networking)

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