Etherbet interface redundancy

[Kerberus]

Does the new version of FreeVRRPD do nic redundency in case of failure,
along with system failover ? 

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 19:10, othermark wrote:
> In article <3F2000A1.9060500 at 401.cx>, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:
> > Is there a way to accomplish interface redundancy on machines with dual 
> > interface?
> 
>  You're right ng_onetomany uses all the interfaces unless one goes
>  down which is not what you're talking about.  FreeBSD does not provide
>  this functionality by default, but there are many hardware vendors 
>  that do provide cards that offer interface redundancy w/o the need
>  for special software interfaces.
> 
>  That being said, you could write something, even in shell script, to
>  poll an interface, and when it's state changes to down, or the link
>  is no longer active, bring up and configure a new interface.  This
>  would lose all the existing connections, but new connections would
>  survive the failover.
> 
> ---
> Mark
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> 
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