Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 22:02:28 -0600 From: David J Duchscher <daved@tamu.edu> To: Steve Francis <steve@expertcity.com> Cc: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redundant NIC/Connections Message-ID: <02B3D733-1E07-11D7-9808-0003930B3DA4@tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3E1244CA.60702@expertcity.com>
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--Apple-Mail-3-895925799 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 07:30 PM, Steve Francis wrote: > Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > >> On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, David J Duchscher wrote: >> >> >> >I was wondering how people are handling redundant connections? We >> >would like to have dual NICs in the FreeBSD box with each NIC >> connected >> >to a different switch. Both switches are in the same broadcast >> domain. >> >In pointers, hints on this may done would be greatly appreciated. >> >> >> Hmm... no responses posted to date. > > I think one of my colleagues responded directly to the poster. We do > it by a daemon he wrote that monitors interface link status, and also > pingability of default gateways, and reconfigures interfaces in event > of a failure, based on the normal configuration file settings > (/etc/rc.conf) > > Instantly in event of link loss; after a few seconds of retrying in > event of router loss (we use HSRP addresses for routers.) Yes, I got a few responses including the one mentioned above. Lack of time and changing priorities has prevented me from following up on them. Anshuman Kanwar did mentioned he might release his solution as open source if there was interest. I am at least interested in reviewing it. I just need to find the time. DaveD --Apple-Mail-3-895925799 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-disposition: inline content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBPhO52PsJYFdBGj/VAQIIfQQA1XU46hin8BIpKxD8j0yR8MSWrWX2/Ego IHnJsIPaF/5rcbPxgHcytfWVzPC9mO8u1t6cx8V+Vqbk20RVFq02KhxqLpDXuTUK TuUA8Gl6AnYWAT85Ug+D+Zg0U+GneyQvJHZDchc63LMq52NJVUcdAIcs/1CF85Cb VWNE5S3T5bo= =faVk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-3-895925799-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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