From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 15:22:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42DA316A420 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:22:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smtp-out2.tiscali.nl (smtp-out2.tiscali.nl [195.241.79.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F8C13C467 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:22:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from [82.171.39.195] (helo=guido.klop.ws) by smtp-out2.tiscali.nl with smtp (Tiscali http://www.tiscali.nl) id 1IGG1e-0004cv-Js for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:22:14 +0200 Received: (qmail 74016 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2007 15:22:06 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO guido.klop.ws) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Aug 2007 15:22:06 -0000 Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:22:05 +0200 To: "Ewald Jenisch" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Ronald Klop" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20070801151417.GA1940@aurora.oekb.co.at> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070801151417.GA1940@aurora.oekb.co.at> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.22 (FreeBSD) Cc: Subject: Re: LAN failover redundandcy? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:22:16 -0000 On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:14:17 +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a way to configure failover redundancy for one of my > servers. To be specific: > > The server in question has one IP-address but two LAN interfaces each > of them connecting to a different switch. > > Traffic normally runs only through one of the two interfaces; the > other is for redundandy only. In case the active LAN-interface goes > down (e.g. because of a link and/or switch failure) the second > LAN-interface should take over in the sense that traffic should run > through the second interface (again the server has only one > IP-address, so binding a different IP-address to the interface is not > an option here) > > Is there any way how this can be configured under FreeBSD 6.2? > > Thanks much in advance for your help, > -ewald man lagg 'link aggregation and link failover interface' It is in 6-STABLE. I don't know since when. Ronald. -- Ronald Klop Amsterdam, The Netherlands