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why in the world would you need both linux servers to have access to all
traffic on the network, that's a really _bad_ idea when it comes to
bandwidth, AND security. the whole point of having a switch is so that
traffic between hosts doesn't affect traffic between other servers and
hosts. if you need to do failover, the 2 linux servers should have an
active connection between them, which doesn't require that they monitor
traffic.
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
"Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Jason Jorgensen wrote:
> We are trying to setup a couple of linux boxes to act as a bridge so
> that we have some redundancy if one box fails. To do this the linux
> boxes need to "see" each other and all traffic on the network. However
> we are using switches for security and the switches only have
> capabilities for one monitoring port (a port that sees all traffic, just
> like a hub would do). We would need 2 monitoring ports on each of our 2
> switches to allow the bridges to work properly. So I would like some
> suggestions on switches that would have more than one monitoring port.
> Right now we are using HP ProCurve 2424's.
>
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