[K12OSN] 8 GB RAM on 32-bit Edubuntu with AMD 64 processors

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:18:09 -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote
> Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:09:16 -0500 (EST), Tom Wolfe wrote
> >> Jim, do you use VLAN on the 24-port gig switches with one server NIC per 
> >> VLAN or is it all on the same physical LAN?
> > 
> > All on the same physical LAN.  This is possible due to Adaptive Load Balancing.  The
> > nics aren't teamed in the respect of total throughput, but rather in the respect that
> > they can handle their own set of commands and traffic.  Below is a description on ALB:
> > 
> > mode=6
> > 
> > Adaptive load balancing: includes balance-transmit load balancing plus receive load
> > balancing for IPV4 traffic, and does not require any special switch support. The receive
> > load balancing is achieved by ARP negotiation. The bonding driver intercepts the ARP
> > Replies sent by the local system on their way out and overwrites the source hardware
> > address with the unique hardware address of one of the slaves in the bond such that
> > different peers use different hardware addresses for the server.
> 
> Fascinating.  Does this mean that you use the standard dhcpd.conf 
> settings?  Excellent design, Jim.  I anticipate reading the results of 
> some more network load testing.

As James said the clients and the dhcp server don't know the difference, so the standard
conf file still works. 

Jim

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