From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 19 12:03:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07590 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:03:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07566 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:03:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA05428; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:02:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:02:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Ralf Hanl cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: AW: dual homed with FDDI (DEC) In-Reply-To: <01BDCB4E.72E2DD80@pcstc115.stc.bwb.ag> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Ralf Hanl wrote: > I don't think,that we have routing problems, because both cards are > connected to the same IP-segment. The problem is, how to tell the > kernel, if one card dies, then take the other one. FreeBSD doesn't support fail-over, unless someone snuck it in while I wasn't paying attention. It could be done with a cron task and 'ping' though -- if 'ping' doesn't respond run ifconfig to switch the interface configs over. > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Ralf Hanl wrote: > > > I want to connect two DEC-SAS-FDDI-cards dual homed to two > > FDDI-concentrator from cisco. Is there a chance to configure the drivers > > to have the same IP-address on both cards. > > I don't think FreeBSD's network model permits this. > > Just how would you set up the routing for this, anyway? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message