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Does anyone know the best way to configure NIC teaming switchports for HP servers?Currently we have a problem where servers are connected to the switches in a dual NIC fashion and are teamed. The server transmits out of both interfaces but receives o...
Hello,We currently have many etherchannels in our network, most of which are legacy. These are configured in a 'mode ON' state.We are now looking to configure all port channels in a 'mode desirable non-silent' state.We have been advised this is the r...
Hello,I have a route that I am trying to advertise to an external provider via BGP, but with no success.- This is an EBGP connection;- I have the route in my IGP table (OSFP);- I have given the network statement in BGP to advertise the route;- I have...
Hello,I have a sup720 65k. Today we had a server which had a NIC failure, and so we used another spare nic from the same server to get it back online. The same IP details were configured on the new NIC. This took about 30 minutes.The problem was that...
Sorry i forgot to mention i have already done the test where we diabled the team i.e. used only 1 NIC, and the servers worked fine this way. The problem only exists when they enable the team on the same vlan.Just out of curiosity what debug commands ...
Thats very interesting. I'll see if I can get hold of the doc, i should be able to. In the meantime I found this which tells us about TLB teaming:ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/networking/capability.pdfand also this paragraph:Transmit Load...
Thanks Andrew.I spoke to the server team with the suggestions you made but they directed me to a HP installation document which they got from HP when troubleshooting. On this doc it said if the server is configured in TLB mode (teamed load balancing)...
Thanks Andrew, you really know your stuff!If I summarise the the best way forward from our discussion:- A NIC team pair if configured in load-balance mode should be on the same switch, and configured with etherchannel on the switch.- If the NIC pair ...