RE: Dual Ethernet NIC w/ failover
From: John Straiton (jsmailing_at_clickcom.com)
Date: 11/19/03
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To: "'Chip McClure'" <vhm3@gigguardian.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:07:48 -0500
I had thought about that as a possibility. My thought was if I created like
a /dev/ether0 and then symlink'ed it to /dev/fxp0, in the event of a
failure, I could just change the link over to fxp1 and my firewall rules,
dhcpd configurations, et al would still work since they were just reference
the symlink (assuming I can do something oddball like that).
I was just hoping that someone with more skill than I had put together a
more fluid means of all this happening..
Thanks,
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chip McClure [mailto:vhm3@gigguardian.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:02 PM
> To: jsmailing@clickcom.com
> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Dual Ethernet NIC w/ failover
>
> John Straiton said:
>
> Hello John,
>
> Although I didn't do this for any gigabit nic's, it should
> work the same, no less.
>
> I worte up a small shell script, that pings the gateway
> device. If the ping fails, the shell script de-configures the
> primary interface of that card, and configures the secondary
> interface, assuming the identity of the 1st interface. she
> shell script also write a value to a text file, as to which
> is the active interface, so it knows to revert back, if the
> secondary were to fail. This script was added into the cron
> job, to run every minute.
>
> Chip
>
> > Greets!
> > I have seen a number of posts regarding support of the
> dual ethernet
> > cards, however I haven't seen a lot of posts regarding the
> > availability of dual ethernet cards with working failover
> software...
> > I have a couple of the Intel 10/100/1000's on hand but it
> appears that
> > the software they use only comes in a linux binary. I'm a
> bit leary of
> > trying to shoehorn it into working with the linux binary
> compatibility
> > (assuming I could) since the whole purpose of having a dual
> ethernet
> > NIC is to take variables *out* of the networking.
> > I'm looking to try to hook a 5.1-R machine up to two separate
> > switches that connect to the same core and run spanning
> tree so that a
> > failure in either a switch or a network cable would
> automagically fail
> > over to the other port at the same IP.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on dual gigabit NICs
> that they have
> > been able to get into switch-failover mode?
> >
> > John Straiton
> > jks@ clickcom.com
> > Clickcom, Inc
> > 704-365-9970x101
> >
> >
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> -----
> Chip McClure
> Sr. Unix Administrator
> GigGuardian, Inc.
>
> http://www.gigguardian.com/
> -----
>
>
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