From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 16 18:58:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E21106566B for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:58:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505b.appriver.com [98.129.35.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822F88FC16 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:58:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.15 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht02.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: 111 112 113 114 118 119 130 215 X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.15] (HELO ht02.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.14) with ESMTPS id 9463761 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:58:49 -0500 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.239]) by ht02.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.15]) with mapi; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:58:49 -0500 From: Peter Steele To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:58:45 -0500 Thread-Topic: Can lagg0 failback be prevented? Thread-Index: Aco29OpyNDMHofBNQ2SaJ76b+u8z0gACpQKg Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3042DDC4@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3042DC5F@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <200909161941.04441.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <200909161941.04441.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-cr-hashedpuzzle: BaS1 BtGz CF9t CJlY CgEp C0Kr FTiV FpRi FrWA F4oU GFSX GnqS HxJd H/Xw JaY7 KZMv; 1; ZgByAGUAZQBiAHMAZAAtAHEAdQBlAHMAdABpAG8AbgBzAEAAZgByAGUAZQBiAHMAZAAuAG8AcgBnAA==; Sosha1_v1; 7; {F92ECA85-A551-4C33-BEBC-07013AD1BFF9}; cABzAHQAZQBlAGwAZQBAAG0AYQB4AGkAcwBjAGEAbABlAC4AYwBvAG0A; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:58:45 GMT; UgBFADoAIABDAGEAbgAgAGwAYQBnAGcAMAAgAGYAYQBpAGwAYgBhAGMAawAgAGIAZQAgAHAAcgBlAHYAZQBuAHQAZQBkAD8A x-cr-puzzleid: {F92ECA85-A551-4C33-BEBC-07013AD1BFF9} acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: Can lagg0 failback be prevented? 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: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:58:50 -0000 >Not really, unless you manually change master. However I believe this also= causes a slight or even bigger network outage. Any reason you're not using= loadbalance algorithm, since it seems to suit you better? Our resident network guru is quite opposed to using the loadbalancing optio= n since it comes with a lot of potentially undesirable baggage of its own..= .