From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 14 17:11:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wingerboy.sonic.net (fw.office.sonic.net [209.204.177.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D1537B405 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:11:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:11:02 -0700 From: Kelsey Cummings To: Jeff Behl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: redundant ethernet connections? (different switches) Message-ID: <20010914171102.Y423@sonic.net> References: <3BA295F7.6020708@expertcity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BA295F7.6020708@expertcity.com>; from jeff@expertcity.com on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:42:47PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:42:47PM -0700, Jeff Behl wrote: > we have some Dell poweredge boxes that come with dual onboard nics: > > fxp0: > fxp1: > > Ideally we'd like to have these ports in a redundant configuration where > > each is hooked up to a different switch and, if one switch or card was > to fail, the other would take over. Is this possible now? In the > future? Is this something that has to be supported by the cards? And > if so, I would imagine the driver would have to support it as well? I don't think there are any packages that directly support it but it shouldn't be that hard to roll your own. Check for link status, if the link on the primary is down, bring up the secondary. Of course, this would only work if the failure caused link status to drop. > I'm a little confused on the subject... > > thanks for any help. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kelsey Cummings - kgc@sonic.net sonic.net System Administrator 300 B Street, Ste 101 707.522.1000 (Voice) Santa Rosa, CA 95404 707.547.2199 (Fax) http://www.sonic.net/ Fingerprint = 7F 59 43 1B 44 8A 0D 57 91 08 73 73 7A 48 90 C5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message