Re: B1600 Chassis network question

From: Fredrik Lundholm (dol_at_ce.chalmers.se)
Date: 10/22/04

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    In article <pan.2004.10.22.10.11.08.872708@lineone.ten>,
    Steph <stephanos@lineone.ten> wrote:

    >What I need
    >to know is whether or not I can have a switch set up with VLANs of two IP
    >networks, and the other switch monitoring it and doing some sort of
    >availability checking (e.g. heartbeat, or something) and 'takes over' the
    >connections if the first one fails. As you say each blade is connected to
    >each switch on each of it's interfaces, I suspect this isn't possible...

    Well, using a dual star toplogy with the blade server and IPMP
    in Solaris I think it is possible. (And nothing prevents the two
    switches to be cabled up together)

    >Which does lead me onto another question -- the B200X blades have 4 ports
    >IIRC; what do they plug into?

    Aha interesting, never bothered with the B200x, but with four ports
    they would connect two of them to each switch.
     
    >Again, I'm new to the whole tech so please excuse my ignorance.

    No problemo..

    Fredrik

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