Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:05:46 +0200 From: Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl> To: "Gustavo A. Baratto" <gbaratto@superb.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Ethernet NIC w/ failover Message-ID: <20050417150546.GA72647@dragon.stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <00bf01c53fad$f2103e10$6400a8c0@garrincha> References: <022301c53faa$e7da70d0$0201a8c0@mco2> <00bf01c53fad$f2103e10$6400a8c0@garrincha>
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Gustavo A. Baratto wrote: > Take a look into CARP: > http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#CARP > > It has been ported to freebsd, and it will probably be out for 5.4. > > Most likely you want to failover two servers, and not two NICs, since HDs > fail much mure often than NICs. Beside that not being what the poster asked for, there's more than just the NIC that can go down - think cables and switches. NIC failover is useful... -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology dean@stack.nl | dean@ipnet6.org | http://www.ipnet6.org/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli
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