Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:33:24 -0800 From: Mike Thompson <miket@dnai.com> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP alias configuration for high availability Message-ID: <4.1.19990326173236.00a0c890@mail.dnai.com> In-Reply-To: <E10QJUr-0003NB-00@fanf.noc.demon.net> References: <4.1.19990323134009.0099fe10@mail.dnai.com>
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Tony, Thanks for the clever tip. This was the type of helpful information I was looking for. Mike >You can avoid the need to fiddle with arp and ifconfig by setting up >the alias on the server's loopback interface. You then control which >servers are live by changing the routes on the router; the servers >don't need to be told what's going on. > >To set up a server: > >ifconfig ed0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 >ifconfig lo0 inet 209.185.152.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias > >On the router: > >route add -host 209.185.152.1 192.168.0.1 > >Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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