[ale] failover planning

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:56, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:34, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I've tried this before with simple configuration of two nics simply
> > using ifconfig.  But I was never convinced that packets destined for 2.5
> > was not scooped up by the first nic on 2.4
> 
> When I transitioned from cable to dsl I had such a setup.
> The problem was that BOTH nics would reply to broadcasted ARP request
> for either of the IPs with their own Ethernet address.
> This caused packets to arrive at the wrong interface where they were
> blocked by a firewall. (This was an old hacked up 2.2.16? kernel)
> 

If I unplug 2.5 then all pings to 2.5 should fail.  That is at least
what I want to happen.