From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 14 16:42: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from host3.expertcity.rangefire.net (host1.expertcity.rangefire.net [216.64.159.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270DE37B403 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.4.1.134] (helo=expertcity.com) by host3.expertcity.rangefire.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #4) id 15i2ay-00028d-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:42:04 -0700 Message-ID: <3BA295F7.6020708@expertcity.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:42:47 -0700 From: Jeff Behl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: redundant ethernet connections? (different switches) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 we have some Dell poweredge boxes that come with dual onboard nics: fxp0: fxp1: Ideally we'd like to have these ports in a redundant configuration where each is hooked up to a different switch and, if one switch or card was to fail, the other would take over. Is this possible now? In the future? Is this something that has to be supported by the cards? And if so, I would imagine the driver would have to support it as well? I'm a little confused on the subject... thanks for any help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message