Which Switch do I need to bound four ethernet ports from our XServe to one IP?

[timmix]

Hello everybody,

we’ve installed our brand new XServe (2 x Dualcore Xenon) and XRaid.

Now, we want bound our four ethernet ports on the XServe (2 internal ports and one extension card with two additional ports) two one logical (or virtual?) port.

Okay, Tiger let me bind the four ports to one IP (it’s called “Bund” in a german Tiger installation), but it seems our Switch can’t manage this (it’s a unmanaged 3Com Baseline GbE-Switch) – so we are looking for a new one with 48 GbE Ports

Any suggestions?

Thank you.

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Timm

[Pork Chop]

Hello Timmix, I am using a cisco 3750 24 port gigabit switch.

I can then group as many ports that i want into “channel-groups”

I dont think it has to be cisco – just a managed switch.

Netgear are supposedly good value for money although i havent tried them myself!

hope this helps! :0)

[timmix]

Thank’s for your suggestions.

On Friday last week, I was on the CBit (it’s 150km from my office) and checked some switches and VPN-Routers. I’ve talked to SMC, Linksys, ZyXel, Level-One and so on. Best experience I’ve made was my conversation with SMC (that was my english talk there – oh, my god! 🙂 , they answered all my questions. The other ones didn’t have answers, only question too – mmpfh -or they are talked sellers stuff.

Having answers to questions did the job, so today I’ve ordered a SMC8748L2 🙂

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Timm

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