+--- In a previous state of mind, Scott Miller skottie@fa.disney.com wrote: | | On some platforms, all interfaces in a given system can have the same IP | address, which simplifies management, and means there is one "view" | of a multi-interface machine from the outside. Routing gets simpler, too.
Sounds like etherchannel... I think Alteon was trying this with their Gigabit stuff; unfortunately, no other vendor supports this feature.
| It's the failover that we're most interested in, for the fault tolerance | and redundancy reasons. load balancing makes administration easier, and | helps us better utilize the switch architecture we have in place. | | So, NetApp, what are the chances of getting SPANS fail over and load balancing | in your ATM implementation?
I had always wondered if anybody was using (packet-slicing) ATM for their filers. What sort of performance are you getting?
Alexei