Thanks nate. Right now I am not concerned with the load balancing. I have few cluster nodes and if I run mode1 , then the failover time may lead to cluster timeout. I have not tested it yet but I will do it. So if the failover time from active to backup is very small and in miliseconds my cluster can afford that and I will stick with mode 0. Is there a way to change this time/durartion ? Thanks Paras. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:18 PM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > Paras pradhan wrote: > > Nate, > > > > Thanks for you input. 802.3ad seems better but I am not in a position to > > terminate both links in the same switch or same stack. What about mode 6? > > > I have a NFS cluster running mode 6 with two systems, it works ok, > been running for a bit over a year now. Each system has 4 NICs, and > 4 IPs(load balancing done mostly via round robin DNS). > > The systems run CentOS 4.x, they are basically appliances everything > comes pre-configured by the vendor. > > So I can say it can work, and does work when properly configured, > though I would not use it myself. The vendor has since moved away > from this and is going with 802.3ad for better standards compliance. > > nate > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100113/889eba5e/attachment-0004.html>