Chapter 4: Installing BACS on a Linux System
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AT-2931SX BASP Configuration for Red Hat and United Linux
Distributions
This section describes the AT-2931SX BASP Configuration for Red Hat
and United Linux 1.x based distributions. The AT-2931SX BASP
distribution includes a utility program and several scripts for team
configuration. Most of the steps are only required after the first time
installation. In the following procedure, perform Step 2 "Modify the
configuration script," whenever you change the team configuration.
Since Linux distributions do not automatically load drivers for network
devices unless the device is configured with an IP address, you must
manually configure a network-script file for all of the physical adapters that
will be team members. Network script files are located under /etc/
sysconfig/network-scripts (Red Hat) or /etc/sysconfig/network (United
Linux 1.x). The file name must be prefixed with "ifcfg-" then the physical
adapter alias. For interface eth0, you create a file with the name ifcfg-eth0
and then add the content below.
Note
To avoid failover problems when using AT-2931SX BASP, make
sure that the spanning tree is disabled on the switch which is
connected to the network adapter.
Note
When adding 64 VLANs, the 64th VLAN must have a VLAN ID of 0
(63 VLANs are tagged and 1 VLAN is untagged).
Example:
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
For users of other Linux distributions, follow instructions in the “AT-
2931SX BASP Configuration and Startup for Other Linux Distributions” on
page 56.
baspcfg.8
man page for baspcfg utility
Table 3. Contents of the release.txt File (Continued)
Filename
Description