Re: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:58:45 Peter Steele wrote: > >Not really, unless you manually change master. However I believe this also > > causes a slight or even bigger network outage. Any reason you're not > > using loadbalance algorithm, since it seems to suit you better? > > Our resident ne

RE: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Steele
>Not really, unless you manually change master. However I believe this also >causes a slight or even bigger network outage. Any reason you're not using >loadbalance algorithm, since it seems to suit you better? Our resident network guru is quite opposed to using the loadbalancing option since i

Re: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 16:12:25 Peter Steele wrote: > The problem we're having is when nfe0 comes online again, a failback occurs > making nfe0 active again. This causes a momentary network outage that we > want to prevent. Is there a way to configure the lagg device to stay with > the

Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Steele
I posted this on the -net list but didn't get any responses. I'm hoping a wider audience might help. We're using the lag driver to provide automatic failover in case of a network outage. The default configuration looks like this: lagg0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=19b