[TriLUG] Attn: Samba Experts - Two Nics on same subnet?

[Jason Tower]

depending on what nics you have you can team or bond two nics to act as one 
(which can provide better throughput and redundancy), but i think you might 
need the switch to support that kind of thing as well.  otherwise i wouldn't 
do it - two interfaces on the same subnet can cause all kinds of problems 
that will likely far outweigh any performance benefits you're likely to 
receive.

jason

On Wednesday 18 June 2003 12:25, bp wrote:
> You may remember my post last week about replacing a part-time w2k file
> server with a dedicated linux file server.
> Well, Here's my machine.  Pieced together from lab parts & has a 120gb
> present from the lab manager on the way.
>
> A Compaq PC6000, 300mhz P2, 256MB ram
> +Primary IDE
>     cdrom
>     ibm deskstar 15gb (swap, home, & tmp partions here)
> +Secondary IDE
>     120 gb drive (soon, already ordered, huge public share)
> +Onboard SCSI2
>     wd 4.3 gb drive  (planning to install RH9 here)
> PCI 10/100 Ethernet card (dns/ip=x1)
> Onboard ethernet port  (dns/ip=fs)
>
> The question.  I think I've got the hardware laid out as best I can
> performance wise.  Now the question is with samba.  I have two static ip
> addresses available as noted above.  I was hoping that my bottle next
> will be the 10mb/s cisco switches we are on, so my first thought is to
> run cables to two different switches and have samba listen to all
> interfaces.  But then clients will have to use \\x1.lab.x.y\share OR
> \\fs.lab.x.y\share to get the "closer" or "less congested" interface?
>
> Are their any samba tricks for having two nic's on the same subnet to
> boost performance?
>
> *Ideally* i'd like to balance samba traffic across the two interfaces.
>
> I've tried something like this in the past and it seemed that only one
> nic ever got used.  But then again, I didn't know what I was doing. ;-)
>
> Any advice appreciated.
> -bp
>
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