[nflug] Cisco Switch question on cloned NIC card

[anthonyriga]

They are setup as failover if I pull one cat5 out the
other still works. 

--- "David J. Andruczyk" <djandruczyk at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 
> It sounds like they aren't configured for load
> balance,  but as
> failover (hence the single mac for both ports)
> 
> How doe you have then comfigured for sure on the
> server side?
> 
> One way you can tell is to enable full
> logging/debugging on the switch
> and pull the connections out one at a time and note
> the log entries
> generated. (it'll also give you clues if you have
> failover configured
> correctly), beware this isn't recommended practice
> on production
> servers unless you have a downtime window that can
> be made use of.
> 
> 
> --- anthonyriga <torrodimerda at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Company I am working for has about 20 or so
> servers
> > setup with the Intel GIG NIC cards cloned for
> > redundancy and network load balance. The nic cards
> > have 2 ports on them  but 1 mac address. I am
> trying
> > to figure out what ports the actual CAT5 cable is
> > connecting too from the server to the the GIG
> switch
> > without tracing everything manually becasuse the
> > cables are a mess.
> >  I have been sucessful getting the ports on the
> non
> > Intel cards that only have 1 port on them. I have
> been
> > doing a show arp then using the show
> mac-address-table
> > | in nnnn
> >  where nnnn has any character of the mac address
> in
> > it...
> >  
> > It will then show you the port the mac address is
> > assigned to..
> > The NIC cards with 2 cat5 cables going to the
> switch
> > only show 1 port becasue there is only 1 mac
> address
> > it reconizes. Any suggestions on how to show the
> other
> > port? 
> > 
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> 
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> 
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