From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 17:50:30 2002 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 4356D37B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:50:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45DF143E6E for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:50:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: from markx.vladsempire.net (12-218-27-215.client.mchsi.com [12.218.27.215]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D3A25238; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:50:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: network link failover From: Josh Paetzel Reply-To: friar_josh@webwarrior.net To: "W. Desjardins" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020820144648.T26962-100000@mail.carracing.com> References: <20020820144648.T26962-100000@mail.carracing.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 20 Aug 2002 19:48:53 +0000 Message-Id: <1029872940.224.63.camel@markx.vladsempire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 18:56, W. Desjardins wrote: > Hi, > > I couldnt find anything in the archives specific to this question. > > I was wondering if there are any network card drivers that support link > failover between either 2 cards, or 2 ports on the same card? basically, I > am looking to have a server hooked to 2 switches and have the link > failover (while maintaining IP address) failover to the new port in the > event of a dead switch. > > I currently use this functionality in solaris with a daemon called > in.mpathd that uses interface aliases as floating ip's between network > interfaces. Solaris will failover and back, any links that fail for any > reason. Its nice in that besides load balancing to all interfaces in a > group, I can use any number of interfaces on any card as a group. > > I know some of the multiport ethernet cards such as the intel dual-port > and dlink quad-port claim failover capabilities, but I suspect that is > only for windows. is this correct? Is there any ability in the drivers fro > these cards to accomodate failover? > > Oh...and I know I can write a script in an hour or so to perform this duty > and unless I find any new info here, is what I will be doing. I just dont > care to reinvent a sub-standard wheel if a nice round one already exists > ;) > > Thanks, > > Bill Nope. No wheels here to reinvent. FreeBSD is basically designed to be a one way shot to the internet routing platform. I don't know for a fact that the intel multiport cards are capable of what you want, but in 6 years of using FreeBSD I've never heard of one being used in that capacity. (Take it for what it's worth) Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message