Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:14:57 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, eugen@kuzbass.ru, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Subject: Re: lagg(4) and failover Message-ID: <b09adf7020af6c9b18215a7249114e82@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20080812120307.GD64458@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20080812120307.GD64458@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Hi Peter, On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:03:07 +1000, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > On 2008-Aug-12 13:43:29 +0200, Marian Hettwer <mh@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
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