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Date:      Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:25:59 -0500
From:      Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Carp for nic redundancy ?
Message-ID:  <7.0.0.16.2.20051204122019.04d3e188@msdi.ca>

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Hi,

from what I understand, carp is used to provide redundancy between 
two "servers" but can it provide redundancy for two nics in the same "server" ?


ex: if a server has 2 nics and one goes down, the virtual ip would 
get transfered to the other nic...

I'm looking for a way to "team" nic a bit like hp or intel does on 
windows, I tried stuff like netstat, one2many,  ether, etc and can't 
find a way to make this work so I am wandering if carp could help.

For now, since I didn't find anything that would work, I've put a 
couple of ips on my loopback interface, put each of my nics on 2 
differents subnet and used ospf for redundancy. It works perfectly, 
but I would prefer to have redundancy at layer 2 not layer 3

Thanks



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