[ale] Tricking your clients

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

I don't know the full details, but I seem to recall that DEC had a
solution that involved a single NIC having to MAC addresses; one is the
real MAC address and the other is a virtual MAC address.  The virtual MAC
address would migrate to another box if the one it was on died.

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Denny Chambers wrote:

> I am doing some research for a mirroring/failover project. I am looking
> at different ways to get the clients to stop communicating with the
> primary server and start communication with the secondary server. There
> seems to be three major ways of doing this.
>
> 1. DNS tricks (Dynamic DNS) - I am ruling this out for this project,
> because it is to slow in migrating clients over, we will not have access
> to client DNS, and it assumes that your client is referring to all of
> the machines by host name. This is more for web/ftp server failover.
>
> 2. IP Address Takeover - This is the more popular way and some what more
> documented. This along with gratuitous ARP seems to be the best answer
> right now.
>
> 3. MAC Address Takeover - This is the reason that I am writing this
> email. I have seen this technique mentioned in a couple of place, but
> not a lot of information is available. So has anyone done or doing this
> now? Can anyone provide some more detailed information on this topic
> (Pros / Cons)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>

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