topic Re: vif favor and cifs session in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/vif-favor-and-cifs-session/m-p/14060#M1302 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>Thank you very much for your respone and the link.</P><P></P><P>I tested it and there is no loss of communication and i am to copy the data to a cifs share while doing a vif favor. </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:03:51 GMT vreddypalli 2010-09-16T15:03:51Z vif favor and cifs session https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/vif-favor-and-cifs-session/m-p/14050#M1300 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>We have situation where a single mode vif was implemented using one 100Mbps and 1g network switches with e0a connecting to 100Mbps switch and e0b to 1g switch.</P><P></P><P>Filer is serving CIFS and NFS data over the VIF interface.&nbsp; Now we want to move the e0a to a new 1g switch.&nbsp; When we check vif status the traffic is currently going through e0a.</P><P></P><P>My Question is:</P><P></P><P>If i do a "vif favor e0b" online what happens to CIFS and NFS sessions? </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:08:42 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/vif-favor-and-cifs-session/m-p/14050#M1300 vreddypalli 2025-06-05T07:08:42Z Re: vif favor and cifs session https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/vif-favor-and-cifs-session/m-p/14055#M1301 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN>Changing the favored address does not affect traffic: </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb43764" target="_blank">https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb43764</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:35:32 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/vif-favor-and-cifs-session/m-p/14055#M1301 pascalduk 2010-09-16T11:35:32Z Re: vif favor and cifs session https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/vif-favor-and-cifs-session/m-p/14060#M1302 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>Thank you very much for your respone and the link.</P><P></P><P>I tested it and there is no loss of communication and i am to copy the data to a cifs share while doing a vif favor. </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:03:51 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/vif-favor-and-cifs-session/m-p/14060#M1302 vreddypalli 2010-09-16T15:03:51Z