----- Original Message -----
From: Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>
To: Bogdan <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent:
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: interface trunk0

On
2011/08/10 06:25, Bogdan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to create a trunk0
interface with the following setup:
> OpenBSD 4.0, i386
> 
> 
> PF disabled;
>
> 
> $  sudo cat /etc/hostname.em0
> up
> 
> $  sudo
> cat /etc/hostname.em1
>
up
> 
> 
> $ sudo cat /etc/hostname.trunk0
> trunkproto failover
> trunkport
em0 trunkport em1 10.10.13.25 netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> $ sudo sh
>
/etc/netstart trunk0
> 
> Pinging the gateway returns 'Device busy'
> 
> 
>
Pinging
> 10.10.13.25 works;
> The trunk0 interface is configured correctly
according to
> 'ifconfig';
> 
> I don't have the outpu as I destryed trunk0
interface

The information from ifconfig -A and maybe also netstat -rn are
pretty important in showing what is wrong. I have an idea what you
missed, but
I'm not going to guess based on incomplete information.

This would require to
commute back to trunk setup, which I can not do it anymore
but I thank you for
the willing to help me.

On 2011/08/10 07:14, Bogdan wrote:
> This machine is
critical for local infrastructure and cannot suffer any downtime.

I would
consider this type of reconfiguration a bit dangerous
for something that is so
critical that you can't even suffer downtime
for an OS upgrade.


Yes it
suffered approximately one hour downtime.

It seemed pretty secure to activate
trunk, although had no experience with that in the past.

I was pretty sure on
my skills and that made me to pay.


4.0 is nearly 5 years old - how are your
services critical for
local infrastructure going to cope when the hardware
fails?

well, good question.

First I took the courage to re-write from
scratch all the software 
with concurrency, distribution, fault tolerance and
replication in mind,

Many services are self-replicating on secondary machine,
so I achieve a decent level of data persistence.

All the code I wrote is also
commited into a CVS repository which is mirrored on several machines,
including the development machine.

I don't know how good this setup is but is
something.

And yes a binary image of the running OS would be great, but I am
keep telling myself that nothing wrong could happen.

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