Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:45:19 -0600 From: Bob Bomar <bob@ibsd.us> To: Mipam <mipam@ibb.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: redundancy with freebsd. Message-ID: <1076787918.80305.2.camel@warrior.bomar.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0402110944540.5835-100000@ux1.ibb.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0402110944540.5835-100000@ux1.ibb.net>
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--=-15gdc6xmGGfA2bGRsBEH Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 02:49, Mipam wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I wish to run freebsd on some servers (hp blade servers). > Each server will be supplied with two nic's, both will have the same ip > and network mask. > like this: <snip> > Suppose one switch will fail, then the link on one nic will be inactive. > Meaning is that than the second nic will become active traffic will go ou= t > over the second nic. > Is this possible with freebsd, anybody got any experience with it? > Btw, could you also cc to my own adress mipam@ibb.net What you need to somthing like Spanning Tree Protocol. STP allows you to use multiple NIC's simultaneously, and prevents any loops that could be caused. FreeBSD does not have STP to my knowledge, but OpenBSD does. --=20 Bob Bomar bob@ibsd.us http://www.ibsd.us --=-15gdc6xmGGfA2bGRsBEH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBALnrO9Jm/aTrtdKoRAr1HAKCGlp+MLfhDJnkjZ7vWGtdr72k03QCfRN/l nkYv93fRV5xmm1O/SPcBTyc= =kTU/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-15gdc6xmGGfA2bGRsBEH--
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