lagg(4) and failover

[Marian Hettwer]

Hi Peter,

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:03:07 +1000, Peter Jeremy
<peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> On 2008-Aug-12 13:43:29 +0200, Marian Hettwer <mh at kernel32.de> wrote:
>>> lagg is to handle failover at the physical layer for when one of your
>>> ether ports fails, or someone unplugs a cable. If I understand you
>>>
>>Thats unfortunate...
> 
> I tend to agree.
> 
>>bonding in Linux is capable of doing this and solaris too.
> 
> It shouldn't be too difficult to create something that behaves
> functionally similarly to Slowaris ipmpd (and with marginally more
> effort, you could create something that could be configured to behave
> sensibly).
> 
har har. Yeah, you're right.
But as Max pointed out, theres net/ifstated. I'll have a look into that
tiny daemon :)

Cheers,
Marian