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Date:      Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:02:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ralf Hanl <rhanl@racal.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: AW: dual homed with FDDI (DEC)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808191201500.27190-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BDCB4E.72E2DD80@pcstc115.stc.bwb.ag>

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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Ralf Hanl wrote:

> I don't think,that we have routing problems, because both cards are
> connected to the same IP-segment. The problem is, how to tell the
> kernel, if one card dies, then take the other one.

FreeBSD doesn't support fail-over, unless someone snuck it in while I
wasn't paying attention.

It could be done with a cron task and 'ping' though -- if 'ping' doesn't
respond run ifconfig to switch the interface configs over.

> On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Ralf Hanl wrote:
> 
> > I want to connect two DEC-SAS-FDDI-cards dual homed to two
> > FDDI-concentrator from cisco. Is there a chance to configure the drivers
> > to have the same IP-address on both cards.
> 
> I don't think FreeBSD's network model permits this.
> 
> Just how would you set up the routing for this, anyway?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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