lagg(4) and failover

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2008-Dec-05 07:34:21 -0500, "Brian A. Seklecki" <bseklecki at collaborativefusion.com> wrote:
>Well ... name a price for the development; HA L1/L2 is a feature the
>community would gladly sponsor the development of.

net/ifstated covers at least some of this.

>Also, Peter, you should put a page up on the FreeBSD wiki with some of
>those multi-catalyst LACP IOS config examples.  

This appears to be aimed at Pete French - I'm using stacked Alcatel-Lucent
OS6850's which appear as single switches to LACP.

>P.S., in my experience, system level redundancy/HA with a load balancer
>is almost always less expensive then excessive component-level
>redundancy/ha (RAID Disk, RAID RAM, Dual Power Supplies, Dual
>Backplanes...)

That's a different topic, but yes, you should evaluate your
requirements at a system level, rather than just making every
component HA.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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