From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "S Mohan" Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:58:53 +0000 Subject: RE: [LARTC] IP Failover Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org This would make greater sense/benefit/appropriateness on two different machines, I think. vrrpd is another good alternative. sourceforge is the repository. Regards Mohan -----Original Message----- From: lartc-admin@mailman.ds9a.nl [mailto:lartc-admin@mailman.ds9a.nl]On Behalf Of Ben Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:12 PM To: lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Subject: Re: [LARTC] IP Failover there are several; http://www.linux-ha.org/ is a good place to start. On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 10:36, John Klingler wrote: > Does anyone know of a system service that will provide automatic IP > failover on a system with dual (redudnant) Ethernet adapters? > > For example, I can simulate this by manually deactivating eth0 and > activating eth1, although it takes about 15 secs for the MAC address to > be updated. > > It should be relatively simple to write a program that monitors the > current Ethernet interface and does the change-over automatically (and > forces the MAC update), but before re-inventing the wheel, I suspect > there is already a system program that already does this, I just haven't > found one on Red Hat 8.0. > > > thanks in advance, > > > --John Klingler > > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/