From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 3 08:25:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB4216A417 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:25:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raggen@passagen.se) Received: from av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77FA713C428 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:24:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raggen@passagen.se) Received: by av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 150E737F64; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:24:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1DE37E60; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:23:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.31] (90-230-142-213-no41.tbcn.telia.com [90.230.142.213]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E553837E43; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:24:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46B2E628.8050103@passagen.se> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:24:08 +0200 From: Roger Olofsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ewald Jenisch References: <20070801151417.GA1940@aurora.oekb.co.at> In-Reply-To: <20070801151417.GA1940@aurora.oekb.co.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LAN failover redundandcy? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:25:02 -0000 Ewald Jenisch skrev: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a way to configure failover redundancy for one of my > servers. To be specific: > > The server in question has one IP-address but two LAN interfaces each > of them connecting to a different switch. > > Traffic normally runs only through one of the two interfaces; the > other is for redundandy only. In case the active LAN-interface goes > down (e.g. because of a link and/or switch failure) the second > LAN-interface should take over in the sense that traffic should run > through the second interface (again the server has only one > IP-address, so binding a different IP-address to the interface is not > an option here) > > Is there any way how this can be configured under FreeBSD 6.2? > > Thanks much in advance for your help, > -ewald > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > You might want to look at freevrrpd. It should be in ports. Greetings /Roger