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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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