From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 14:38:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 EF6A616A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:38:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8013A43D46 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:38:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 739 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2005 00:38:09 +1000 Received: from 203-217-79-78.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (203.217.79.78) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 30 Aug 2005 00:38:09 +1000 Message-ID: <43131DCA.9050700@meijome.net> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:38:02 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <20050828182819.GA2941@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: running more than one server with one IP address 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: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:38:11 -0000 Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > If you try this with an internal system, you're probably going to run > into issues with ARP routing and collisions. You'd have to place your > machines in their own VLAN and have one "internal IP" assigned to the > interface and still use some kind of redirection to the VLAN > servers...that's quite a bit of work for most setups, though. How about using CARP , so you'd have a virtual ARP which is actually several servers (either in fallback mode or round robin mode, if that works on fbsd - i think it does in openbsd) B