Date: 24 Jul 2003 20:21:42 +0000 From: Kerberus <kerberus@microbsd.net> To: othermark <atkin901@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Etherbet interface redundancy Message-ID: <1059078101.687.0.camel@vaio.microbsd.net> In-Reply-To: <slrnbi0bqp.14tb.atkin901@adkinson245.f5net.com> References: <3F2000A1.9060500@401.cx> <slrnbi0bqp.14tb.atkin901@adkinson245.f5net.com>
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Does the new version of FreeVRRPD do nic redundency in case of failure, along with system failover ? On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 19:10, othermark wrote: > In article <3F2000A1.9060500@401.cx>, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > > Is there a way to accomplish interface redundancy on machines with dual > > interface? > > You're right ng_onetomany uses all the interfaces unless one goes > down which is not what you're talking about. FreeBSD does not provide > this functionality by default, but there are many hardware vendors > that do provide cards that offer interface redundancy w/o the need > for special software interfaces. > > That being said, you could write something, even in shell script, to > poll an interface, and when it's state changes to down, or the link > is no longer active, bring up and configure a new interface. This > would lose all the existing connections, but new connections would > survive the failover. > > --- > Mark > atkin901 at NOSPAM yahoo dot com > (!wired)?(coffee++):(wired); > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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