IP Multipathing
May 13th, 2009
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It may be a day late and a dollar short, since I replaced the bad cat 5 cable that kept causing my colo’ed server to get disconnected, but it’d be a shame to let that extra interface go to waste.
May 13 14:39:54 holcasaur.us in.mpathd[25625]: [ID 832587 daemon.error] Successfully failed over from NIC bge0 to NIC bge1
May 13 14:40:20 holcasaur.us in.mpathd[25625]: [ID 620804 daemon.error] Successfully failed back to NIC bge0
So I say, go ahead, treat my cables roughly. Jiggle the connections, come what may! Let me not bother the poor support staff any longer.
It was so easy to set up I’m not even going to write about it. Just go to the docs.