Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:02:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Ralf Hanl <rhanl@racal.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: AW: dual homed with FDDI (DEC) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808191201500.27190-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BDCB4E.72E2DD80@pcstc115.stc.bwb.ag>
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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Ralf Hanl wrote: > I don't think,that we have routing problems, because both cards are > connected to the same IP-segment. The problem is, how to tell the > kernel, if one card dies, then take the other one. FreeBSD doesn't support fail-over, unless someone snuck it in while I wasn't paying attention. It could be done with a cron task and 'ping' though -- if 'ping' doesn't respond run ifconfig to switch the interface configs over. > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Ralf Hanl wrote: > > > I want to connect two DEC-SAS-FDDI-cards dual homed to two > > FDDI-concentrator from cisco. Is there a chance to configure the drivers > > to have the same IP-address on both cards. > > I don't think FreeBSD's network model permits this. > > Just how would you set up the routing for this, anyway? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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