[Asterisk-Users] Interface bonding + asterisk

[Bob Goddard]

On Monday 11 April 2005 15:15, Jesus Mogollon wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I installed asterisk on a dual PIII 700 with two NICs. I then proceeded to
> configure both NICs with bonding enable (bonding miimon=100 mode=1). I know
> certain features (like load balancing) under a bonded configuration is not
> understood by some switches, so I configured it using mode=1 (Failover
> only). The problem I'm having is that, sometimes, calls start fine but then
> one of the parties loses audio (it could be the caller of the callee who
> loses audio, there is no pattern). I was wondering if someone has hit the
> same wall as me. There are people using this server right now, so I haven't
> tried the no-bonding option as it means downtime. Any help would be
> appreciated.

I've never tried bonding, but if I was using multiple interfaces,
I'd use a simple trick routers use and configure a loopback address,
ensure the routing table propagates it and have * listen on only
that i/f. Try, ifconfig lo:1 <some IP address> netmask 255.255.255.255


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