Re: Switching IP aliases

1997-07-02 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Well I have now written a script that does this quite nicely. Only Solaris still rebels to seeing the ARP updates. Further investigation shows that Solaris is breaking the rules here so I'll not bother any more with it. Email me if you have a need for this. Cheers. On Sat, 28 Jun

Re: Switching IP aliases

1997-06-29 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: Richard, Would it fix things if you were to ping a non-existant host, thus causing a broadcast from your box? Maybe ping to various subnets as required? Good idea. I now have two debian linux machines passing an IP alias between them. I get the

Switching IP aliases

1997-06-28 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I wish to have 2 nearly identical machines. Each will have it's own IP number plus an IP alias. The idea is that I wish to occasionally take 1 down and give it's IP alias over to the other machine, so that there is no visible change to any clients. The problem is that machines on the localnet