From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 07:29:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B9D16A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:29:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F8743FA3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:29:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h9FETRqQ054070; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:29:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:29:27 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Kyle Heisner Message-ID: <20031015142926.GC39271@dan.emsphone.com> References: <001a01c391b4$51b541c0$3a93a8c0@datacoresoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001a01c391b4$51b541c0$3a93a8c0@datacoresoftware.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fibre Channel Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:29:30 -0000 In the last episode (Oct 13), Kyle Heisner said: > I am putting together a SAN solution for a customer that is using > FreeBSD the customer has asked about support. I found the Qlogic > support for the HBA but we want to make the SAN as failure proof as > possible. Is their a path failover software available to fail > between two different channels one being active and the other passive > and when the active path fails the other path becomes the active > path. Unfortunately, there's no load balancing or failover solutions for FreeBSD that I know if, and I haven't heard anyone mention they're writing one, either. It'd be nice to have. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com