From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 08:52:09 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 61ADD37B401 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE3343F85 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:52:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (132.dairy.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.132]) by rambo.401.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6OFq67P041442 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:52:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <3F2000A1.9060500@401.cx> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:52:01 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030708 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Etherbet interface redundancy 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: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:52:09 -0000 Hello listmembers Is there a way to accomplish interface redundancy on machines with dual interface? I have a few Dell Poweredge 1650 and some Compaq DL-360 G2 servers with dual onboard gigabit interfaces. When running windows, you can use the software provided with each server to "bundle" the interfaces. Compaq calls it "teaming", I cant recall what Dell calls it but Im sure they have a similar catchy name for it. You bundle the interfaces to a virtual interface and assigns it an ip address. If the first interface dies, it switches to the second and uses that instead. I have looked at ng_one2many, but it doesnt seem to be what I need. It uses *both* interfaces unless they are marked as down. I want it to use the first interface unless marked as down, and if it is marked as down, it should switch to the second and try that. It should *never* use both interfaces at the same time. Does anyone know of anything with such a functionality for FreeBSD? -- R