On 12/23/2011 8:12 AM, Francois Labreque wrote:

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>> How? Depending on the way it's set up, it can cause major problems with
>> the switch. Disconnect one of the patch cords and see if performance
>> improves. If it does, you had a loop between the two switch ports, and
>> the two NICs in your server. Either reconfigure your NICs to use
>> fail-over, or make sure "spanning-tree" is enabled on the switch ports
>> facing the server. Keep in mind that by doing that you will lose your
>> 2Gbps aggregation speed and the second NIC will only be there to provide
>> a host-stanby.
>>
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> And by that, I mean "hot-standby". I Should have proof-read...
>

I picked up on that - is there a 'safe' setup that would allow ganging 
of ports like I have?

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