10.4.9 Xserve Setup
March 30th, 2007 by Brandon
Currently I’m trying to get link aggregate setup…any advice? I’m seeing under Network in the System Preferences, “the cable for link aggregate is not plugged in” but I have both network cables plugged in.
One is directly to the wall, the other is in a switch. First I’ll put that one straight to the wall and see if that helps.
Link aggregate will seriously help my network bottleneck for this server, just need to get it figured out!
Posted in Servers
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:31 PM
You have to make sure your switch can support link aggregating also known as trunking. I’m working with HP ProCurve switches and as soon as I figure out how to configure them I’ll submit them to Apple Happy.
June 1st, 2007 at 12:53 PM
Great, thanks Joe! I checked with my manufacturer (I think it was an HP switch) last month and all the docs said that it did support link agg (trunking) and so did my sysadmin…let me know if you get it working.
June 1st, 2007 at 12:57 PM
Yeah I use HP switches too. It turned out that my Network Engineer disabled protocol called LACP (Link Aggregate Control Protocol) because it interfered with old OS 9 computers with Apple Talk. Good luck!