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Date:      Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:22:05 +0200
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        "Ewald Jenisch" <a@jenisch.at>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LAN failover redundandcy?
Message-ID:  <op.twdzm3wu8527sy@guido.klop.ws>
In-Reply-To: <20070801151417.GA1940@aurora.oekb.co.at>
References:  <20070801151417.GA1940@aurora.oekb.co.at>

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On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:14:17 +0200, Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> 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



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