Sitting in a little Internet cafe i Barcelona at the moment,
so i can't do too much research.
Mostly when i've read up on load balancing on the servers,
all the solutions have been slightly dodgy.
i think you have three options,
a simple script that checks the state of each interface and changes route
just using ifconfig would be your lo-fi method, probably not what your
looking for.
A routing protocol, probably gated. Don't know too much about using this,
but from what i've read i think it could do the job.
and i believe there are various hardware solutions.
One that looks good is
http://www.znyx.com/drivers/os/solaris.htm
provides "
link aggregation (for greater overall network throughput)
fast failover (automatic link failure detection/correction)
automatic load balancing (improve network efficiency) "
Is this for web servers at all?
There are a few things aimed specifically at load balancing web sites.
Oh, my time is running out, gotta dash.
Mail me off list with your current phone number and i'll give ya a call as
well, tell you the story behind the barcelona trip!
later,
thor
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Mike Flynn wrote:
> Thor
>
> How ya doing man? Long time no hear. Got a new job at ISP running
> network..... The server guys
> Need some help buddie.... we got some solaris issue with connecting
> solaris 2.6,2.7, or 2.8 to 2 different catalysts.
>
> We want redundancy and would like both links to the different cat's live
> at the same time and to provide fail over in the event of either cat
> loss or link loss. The Sun's just seem to use one link by default and
> won't use secondary in the event of failure......
>
> Have changed the local_mac_address in the EEPROM to get unique MAC's on
> different interfaces.........
>
> Anyone done this?????????????????????????????????????????
>
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