From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 14 1:25: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from relay.tecc.co.uk (luggage.tecc.co.uk [193.128.6.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 959D437B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:25:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@tecc.co.uk) Received: from fw-smtp.tecc.co.uk [195.217.37.39] by relay.tecc.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.70 #1) id 14d7We-00016Q-00; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:25:00 +0000 Received: from [195.217.37.155] (helo=southampton) by fw-smtp.tecc.co.uk with smtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 14d7UZ-0004aR-00; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:22:51 +0000 From: "Andy [TECC NOPS]" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Pagaime?= , Subject: RE: Redundant NIC - preserve IP address in case of failure Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:29:58 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <02db01c0abf9$3a7caeb0$dc0788c1@jpsp> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org VRRP maybe able to help you out, although it was really designed to allow two nics on different servers to share a "virtual" ip address. If one nic (or server) fails, the second nic (server) takes over the IP address and serves it. However, I have two machines here, both with 2 nics in and vrrpd seems to work just fine in swapping ip addresses over. Is that what you want? Regards Ak > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joćo Pagaime > Sent: 13 March 2001 20:07 > To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > Subject: Redundant NIC - preserve IP address in case of failure > > > Hello all, > > I was planning to use 2 NICs on one server and have routed > deal with gateway acquisition through IRDP ou RIP, however, > if the NIC itself fails, I would like to preserve that NIC's > IP address, because there are some well knowed services > using that address. > > Is this possible? How? > > Thanks, > jp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message