From owner-freebsd-net Tue Dec 31 17:28:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE24B37B401 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:28:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from csmail.commserv.ucsb.edu (cspdc.commserv.ucsb.edu [128.111.251.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2303243EC2 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:28:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@expertcity.com) Received: from expertcity.com ([68.6.35.15]) by csmail.commserv.ucsb.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with ESMTP id 483; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:28:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3E1244CA.60702@expertcity.com> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:30:50 -0800 From: Steve Francis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: David J Duchscher , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redundant NIC/Connections References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, David J Duchscher wrote: > > > >I was wondering how people are handling redundant connections? We > >would like to have dual NICs in the FreeBSD box with each NIC connected > >to a different switch. Both switches are in the same broadcast domain. > >In pointers, hints on this may done would be greatly appreciated. > > > Hmm... no responses posted to date. I think one of my colleagues responded directly to the poster. We do it by a daemon he wrote that monitors interface link status, and also pingability of default gateways, and reconfigures interfaces in event of a failure, based on the normal configuration file settings (/etc/rc.conf) Instantly in event of link loss; after a few seconds of retrying in event of router loss (we use HSRP addresses for routers.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message