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Hi,<br />
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I hope some one can help with this.<br />
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I currently have 2 Cisco switches connected together and i want to plug my HP Server into to allow for redundancy in case one switch or NIC fails.<br />
The server has 4 NIC's installed<br />
I would also like to (if possible) have 2 NICs plugged into 1 switch and 2 in the other and etherchannel these to increase the Network speed of the server.<br />
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What would be the best way of doing this?<br />
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Thanks<br />
<br />
James
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Hi,

I hope some one can help with this.

I currently have 2 Cisco switches connected together and i want to plug my HP Server into to allow for redundancy in case one switch or NIC fails.
The server has 4 NIC's installed
I would also like to (if possible) have 2 NICs plugged into 1 switch and 2 in the other and etherchannel these to increase the Network speed of the server.

What would be the best way of doing this?

Thanks

James

HP Teaming, Multiple Etherchannels and Multiple Cisco Switches

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.

Networking Hardware-Other

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.