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newbe · 13-01-2009, 10:31 PM

How can one configure a LAN to have redundant links to a single NIC or MAC address? This would be called fault tolerant so that if one link failed the other link would still provide data. The flow would be 2 - 100BaseT links from a server to ...

How can one configure a LAN to have redundant links to a single NIC or MAC address? This would be called fault tolerant so that if one link failed the other link would still provide data. The flow would be 2 - 100BaseT links from a server to router/switch to router/switch and to a single NIC/IP address.

Would duplicate data be sent on each link and the receiver somehow select one or would the router reconverge to the redundant link by sensing a link failure and reconverging to the backup link?

Any thoughts or literature you might refer me to so that I could understand how to do this or if it can be done?

Thanks for any tips

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Hardware & Networking Thread, Design for redundant links? in Software & Hardware , Games; How can one configure a LAN to have redundant links to a single NIC or MAC address? This would be ... Short Link: http://forum.egypt.com/enforum/showthread.php?t=16579