On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 at 22:01 -0600, Lars Rasmussen wrote: > On 7/21/05, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1 Server, 1 IP, 2 NICs. Load balancing would be nice, redundancy is the > > primary goal. i.e. if a NIC dies, life goes on over the alternate NIC > > without interruption. > > > > Google points me towards bonding the NICs > > (Documentation/networking/bonding.txt) but I wondered if anyone had done > > this and what approach you took. > > Hans, > > I don't know how to do this with one server and 2 NICs. I'd be more > worried about fan, power supply, or hard drive failure(all moving > parts)than NIC failure.
All redundant already, and I've seen two NICs fail in important boxes in the past year, tying for first place with power supplies. > With 2 servers you can setup CARP with a > virtual IP as the internal gateway for high availability. If one of > the interfaces dies or one server goes down, the other takes over, and > the gateway IP is always the same. pfSense (http://www.pfsense.com/) > will do this - get version 70.8 or later. It's based on FreeBSD 6 - > and can boot off a LiveCD initially. You can opt to install to a hard > drive, CF card with IDE bridge, or use Soekris/PC Engines Wrap (no > moving parts) boards. > > Did I mention you get traffic shaping(QoS) as well? > > Check #pfsense on freenode IRC to ask the developers questions. Sounds interesting, but it looks like bonding will do the trick. Thanks! -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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