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> The ifconfig -alias option won't help if your Round Robin servers
> are on different LANs either...
> 
> I guess ultimately, as Joe pointed out, you can only minimize
> the downtime caused by a crash and limit the users affected.

You can do more than that, but complexity increases dramatically.  I prefer
to conform to "K.I.S.S." engineering principles when I can.

... JG