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Old 10-15-2007
Sun Trunking
Does anyone know where I can download Sun Trunking for Solaris 8? Sun gives this away for Solaris 10 but you have to pay for it for Solaris 8? Seems kind of bass ackwards if you ask me.....
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Old 10-15-2007
.....or upgrade to 10.
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Old 10-15-2007
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Originally Posted by hshapiro
Does anyone know where I can download Sun Trunking for Solaris 8? Sun gives this away for Solaris 10 but you have to pay for it for Solaris 8? Seems kind of bass ackwards if you ask me.....
if you have the right interfaces you don't need suntrunking software with sol10. nic aggregation is build-in in sol10 (man dladm). this don't work with older interfaces so trunking is free for sol10 but not for 8 and 9.
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Old 10-16-2007
Trunking
Unfortunetely, upgrading is not an option...
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