CCM 5.x MCS dual NIC's

[msulieman]

hi

i have 2 7825 ibm MCS's one for Pub and the other for Sub, and each one has 2 NICs, my question is how the config for the 2 NiCs should be? active-active?, acive-standby?

what about the IP's, should each NIC have different IP or same IP?!

please advise

[rdamaso]

Hi,

I think that the UC 5.X doesn't have NIC TEAM support. This is a Server feature.

Maybe in the next version.

tks

[thisisshanky]

You can do active standby type nic failover.

From CLI, type the following command,

set network failover enable.

HTH

Sankar.

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[msulieman]

so, do i need to configure an ip for the second NIC, or just when it becomes active it takes the primary ip automatically?

[thisisshanky]

You only need the IP for the primary NIC. From my experience, once the failover is configured, the bonded nic assumes the ip of the nic with configured ip.

Sankar.

[msulieman]

this what i have to make sure ... thanks and here is 5 !!

[henry.benjamin]

I also notices the mac address moved over as well, the mac address stays the same regardless of which nic is used.