RE: Using multiple NICs for Oracle dNFS

From: D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge_at_uptime.be>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:23:58 +0200
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To add to Matt's response:

From 11.1.0.7 onwards you can add the "dontroute" parameter to the oranfstab file to allow the usage of multiple nics in the same subnet. I have however not done any tests to see how well this works.

Also, in that case I think you can have a situation where the switch decides to use the same outgoing port for all traffic, even if the source (incoming) port is different.

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Freek D'Hooge
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Hameed, Amir Sent: woensdag 28 maart 2012 20:05
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: FW: Using multiple NICs for Oracle dNFS

Response from Matt.

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From: Zito, Matthew [mailto:Matt_Zito_at_bmc.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 1:58 PM
To: Hameed, Amir
Subject: RE: Using multiple NICs for Oracle dNFS

If you could forward my response to the list, I'd appreciate it, as somehow my posting to the list is broken.

The short answer is that they can be in the same VLAN, but different *logical* networks, or different VLANs and different networks.

The longer answer is that you need something like

Nic0 - 10.1.1.5/24
Nic1 - 10.1.2.5/24

And on the filer:

Nic0 - 10.1.1.6/24
Nic1 - 10.1.2.6/24

You can have them on the same VLAN or different, it doesn't really matter at this point. If they're on the same network, so, for example: 10.1.1.5/24 is nic0 and 10.1.1.4/24 is nic1, the box will not properly load balance traffic between the two networks.

When you say traceroute, what does the output look like? If you're expecting to get 10gb speeds, you really need to make sure that there are no routers in between your filers/NAS heads and your database machines.

Matt

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Matthew Zito
Product Development Architect
BMC Software

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Wed Mar 28 2012 - 13:23:58 CDT

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