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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
