From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 12:21:54 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 B0F3537B404 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.microbsd.net (ns1.microbsd.net [4.38.106.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E9343F85 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:21:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kerberus@microbsd.net) Received: by mail.microbsd.net (Postfix, from userid 426) id DEC585C85; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:21:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (lanserv.microbsd.net [4.38.106.110]) by mail.microbsd.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C815C83; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:21:00 -0500 (EST) From: Kerberus To: othermark In-Reply-To: References: <3F2000A1.9060500@401.cx> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1059078101.687.0.camel@vaio.microbsd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 24 Jul 2003 20:21:42 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 19:21:55 -0000 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 is no longer active, bring up and configure a new interface.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"