Multihome on FreeBSD 7.2

[Steve Bertrand]

Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a DELL server with dual port nic card on it. The NICs are connected to the same VLAN.
> I would like to configure the server so that both NIC cards are redundant that if one goes down the second one would pick up and continue. So I would need both ports to be configured with the same IP addresses of the server. Is there something that I need to configure or add to /etc/rc.conf?

You may want to look at lagg(4) in LACP mode:

%grep lagg /etc/rc.conf

cloned_interfaces="lagg0"
ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto lacp laggport re0 laggport age0"
ipv4_addrs_lagg0="208.70.104.110/25"

Your switch will need to be capable of LACP as well, and be configured
in a similar manner.

Steve