I don't know. Its a 24 port cisco that I got from our local network admin.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#888888"><br>Nathan</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2008 5:15 PM, Geoff Jacobs <
<a href="mailto:gdjacobs@gmail.com" target="_blank">gdjacobs@gmail.com</a>
> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Nathan Moore wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I've aquired a few clusternodes that have multiple ethernet jacks. One
<br>> the system-config-network applet I see several different adaptors (eg<br>> eth0 and eth1). Right now, I've got a many more free ports on my switch<br>> than I have nodes in my cluster, so I'm wondering if there's some
<br>> performance benefit from hooking up the second NIC.<br>><br>> Do any of you have a tutorial on multiple NIC's per compute node that<br>> you'd be willing to share? I'm assigning static IP's with named, and
<br>> cocurrently maintaining /etc/hosts files on each machine with the full<br>> cluster map. Do I "just" assign a secon IP address for the second eth1<br>> jack? Is there more to it?<br><br></div>Is your switch capable of trunking, or can it be configured into
<br>multiple VLANs?<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Geoffrey D. Jacobs<br><br></font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></div></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">-- <br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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