[nsp] High-availabity GigE connection to two switches

Robert A. Hayden rhayden at geek.net
Tue Jun 1 16:26:30 EDT 2004


Yea.  Just have RIP or your protocol of choice announce a default and have
gated receive it on the server.  If a link goes down, magic occurs and you
keep going.

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Tony Li wrote:

> >> Any suggestions on how to provide high-availability to a server that
> >> has two network cards, each one connected to a different switch ?
> >> Etherchannel doesn't seem to apply here, unfortunately. (Switch is
> >> either a Cat4K or a Cat6k)
> 
> 
> My preference would be to take the obvious approach and make them two 
> separate
> subnets.  But then I'm weird...
> 
> Tony
> 
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