I've read all the posts and I am having some success and some failures.

2 F760 filers clustered together, onboard ethernet (e0), 10/100 nic (e6) Cisco 6509 switch trunked together

I'm trying to get the e0 and e6 ports to work failover for each other and ideally load balance to get better performance.

I've been able to get the virtual interface running and fail the cluster and everything is fine but I can't get it to load balance (I even tried 4 clients hitting it copying 500mb files) and it seems to always want to use e0, even if I do a "vif favor e6"

Here is my rc lines:

ifconfig e6 mediatype 100tx-fd ifconfig e0 mediatype 100tx-fd vif create multi vif01 e6 e0 vif favor e6 ifconfig vif01 `hostname`-e6 mediatype 100tx-fd partner vif01

Now I added the vif favor e6 even though its multi (shouldn't have to it should load balance), right? Does it matter what order the e6 and e0 commands come in, seems that it affects how vif stat reports? Can I even use e0 and e6 together or should I have another card? its on the 32 bit bus and performance is half of e6. Are the nic cards in the netapps anything special or can I use a well known brand ?

Thanks

Art Hebert Email: art@arzoon.com mailto:art@arzoon.com Arzoon IT Dept. Phone: 650 522-6125 Mobile: 650 444-8667