topic Re: Heartbeat configuration Bond port, Active/Backup or 802.3 AD recommended? in Firewall and Security Management

Heartbeat configuration Bond port, Active/Backup or 802.3 AD recommended?

Wang — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 01:29:48 GMT

Heartbeat configuration Bond port, Active/Backup or 802.3 AD recommended?

Re: Heartbeat configuration Bond port, Active/Backup or 802.3 AD recommended?

PhoneBoy — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 02:03:36 GMT

Bond is the way to go here.
Believe that's been the recommendation for a while here.

Re: Heartbeat configuration Bond port, Active/Backup or 802.3 AD recommended?

Wang — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 02:15:22 GMT

For synchronous interface, Bond, shall I choose active-Backup or 802.3AD?

Re: Heartbeat configuration Bond port, Active/Backup or 802.3 AD recommended?

PhoneBoy — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 02:26:28 GMT

802.3ad I believe is active/active, which gives you more throughput, active/backup does not.
Either should work.

Re: Heartbeat configuration Bond port, Active/Backup or 802.3 AD recommended?

Wang — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 03:36:56 GMT

So, the sync port doesn't need a lot of throughput, you also recommend 802.3AD?

Re: Heartbeat configuration Bond port, Active/Backup or 802.3 AD recommended?

PhoneBoy — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 03:44:27 GMT

In a busy environment, it can use up to 2GB, which if you're using 10GB ports, may be fine, but something to consider if you're using 1GB ports.
Really, it's up to you.

Re: Heartbeat configuration Bond port, Active/Backup or 802.3 AD recommended?

Wang — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 04:29:12 GMT

Ok, thank you very much

Re: Heartbeat configuration Bond port, Active/Backup or 802.3 AD recommended?

_Val_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 09:29:25 GMT

802.3 AD is the recommended, although you will not benefit of load sharing, cause it is multicast / broadcast (depending on ClusterXL mode) traffic anyway. It will not be balanced.

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