LAN failover redundandcy?

Roger Olofsson raggen at passagen.se
Fri Aug 3 08:25:02 UTC 2007



Ewald Jenisch skrev:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a way to configure failover redundancy for one of my
> servers. To be specific:
> 
> The server in question has one IP-address but two LAN interfaces each
> of them connecting to a different switch. 
> 
> Traffic normally runs only through one of the two interfaces; the
> other is for redundandy only. In case the active LAN-interface goes
> down (e.g. because of a link and/or switch failure) the second
> LAN-interface should take over in the sense that traffic should run
> through the second interface (again the server has only one
> IP-address, so binding a different IP-address to the interface is not
> an option here)
> 
> Is there any way how this can be configured under FreeBSD 6.2?
> 
> Thanks much in advance for your help,
> -ewald
> 
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You might want to look at freevrrpd. It should be in ports.

Greetings
/Roger


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