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RHEL6: bonding NICs with DHCP reservation problems

I am using a 4 NIC bond with Bonding Mode: transmit load balancing and a port channel is configured on the switch. I have a DHCP reservation for the IP address being used for the bond. I configured this and restarted network services today, but…
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Comunication between LANS using layer 3 switch only

I have a LAN-A with VLANs 10,15 and a layer 3 switch-A used to communicate between VLANs 10 and 15. This LAN is working OK. I have a LAN-B with VLANs 60,65 and a layer 3 switch-B used to communicate between VLANs 60 and 65. This LAN is working OK…
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Layer 2 Load-Balancing on redundant Architecture

Some PCs with 2 NICs are bound on 2 Switches in order to avoid a Single-Point-of-Failure (the switches are interconnected to each other too). Under which cirumstances is it possible that the PCs can actively use both links to perform load-balancing…
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Duplicate IP on network and layer 2 devices caching

I have two identical VMs (Windows XP guests). I use KVM for the hypervisor. The first one is running, the second is a clone of the first not yet running. I edited the config for the second one to put network link state as down and give it a…
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2 networks with a layer 2 bridge that shouldn't be there.

I have 2 separate networks that I manage. They have a router between and layer 3 connection is working fine. Last week my DHCP servers started handing out IPs across the networks, looking around I figured that I have a layer 2 bridge somewhere, that…
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