Samba NIC Failover

[Tom Bartos]

Typicall NIC Failover is accomplished thru "teaming" software, provided by
the vendor of the NIC card.  I have seen Intel pro 10/100 and compaq NIC
cards teamed.

Go to the vendor of your NIC card(s) and find out if they offer teaming
software for their NIC cards.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Ricker" <rickera2 at SLU.EDU>
To: "Samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>; "Samba NT-Dom"
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:18 PM
Subject: Samba NIC Failover


> All,
>     If samba is on a server with two NIC cards, can samb.conf be
> configured to use the other NIC if one goes down? Can this be done at
> the server level? Or does this have to me dealt with at the network
> level (i.e. load balance)?
>
> Cheers all,
>
> Tony
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