Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 20:42:46 -0800 (PST) From: jdroflet@canada.com To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: secureplay@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: freebsd bridging and failover Message-ID: <20031202204247.22396.h002.c009.wm@mail.canada.com.criticalpath.net>
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Perhaps http://www.bsdshell.net/hut_fvrrpd.html Not tried it myself but been meaning too, probably when my main box locks up on Christmas Eve an dno failover, I will get to it.... Val P. Wrote: Is there a way to implement a failover in a bridge? Basically I'd like to keep two filtering bridges on the network at the same time, one primary and one backup. However, since freebsd bridging doesn't support STP, I can't do that without creating a loop. Is there something (like the vrrp implementation but for bridges) that I can use? Theoretically I can interconnect the two bridges over a serial port and write some sort of heartbeat application, but I'd rather have a solution that has already been tested. Also, my simplistic solution would cause existing connections to be disconnected during the failover.
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