Re: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:58:45 Peter Steele wrote: Not really, unless you manually change master. However I believe this also causes a slight or even bigger network outage. Any reason you're not using loadbalance algorithm, since it seems to suit you better? Our resident network

Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Steele
I posted this on the -net list but didn't get any responses. I'm hoping a wider audience might help. We're using the lag driver to provide automatic failover in case of a network outage. The default configuration looks like this: lagg0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST

Re: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 16:12:25 Peter Steele wrote: The problem we're having is when nfe0 comes online again, a failback occurs making nfe0 active again. This causes a momentary network outage that we want to prevent. Is there a way to configure the lagg device to stay with the

RE: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Steele
Not really, unless you manually change master. However I believe this also causes a slight or even bigger network outage. Any reason you're not using loadbalance algorithm, since it seems to suit you better? Our resident network guru is quite opposed to using the loadbalancing option since it