LAN design question.

[paulo.roque]

I have seen, in many design, a single server connected to 2 switches to avoid that a fail in just one switch stops the server. But, what in the server does make the interface fail over?

Paulo

[7rbowenii]

Paulo,

Many companies make NICs capable of failover. Compaq and 3COM do. They also produce nics that team or channel together. I don't believe that Cisco does though. I would check out compaq.com for more information.

-Bo

[scottmac]

Usually loss of Link . The driver code for the NIC sees the physical failure and moves the traffic to the standby link.

Scott