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From: Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl>
To: "Gustavo A. Baratto" <gbaratto@superb.net>
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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...

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Dean C. Strik             Eindhoven University of Technology
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