Pete Boynton wrote: > Another reason I want to keep it out of > band is because if the device fails, we would be dead in the water > right? Or does it matter? My understanding is if an OOB CAS fails > users can still logon the network if you want to design it that way > of course. Please let me know if I am wrong.
You are correct, the device fails closed. In virtual-gateway mode you can replace the failed CAS with a patch cable temporarily. Real-IP mode requires a bit of router rearrangement. OOB setups can fail open if you so choose. Our switch gear not being Cisco-branded, in-band was our only choice. For what it's worth, we haven't had many hardware failures in five years, none of which interrupted service (drive failures within a RAID 1 array, mostly). The only failures that affected service were fixed with a reboot of the CAS, but those have been more frequent. > > Hey my sister graduated from Oberlin two years ago and loved it! > Sounds like a great school. We are biased, of course ;-) Thanks for the kind words. I have enjoyed my tenure here. -- Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species. -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College Mudd Library, x.56930 -- CIT will NEVER ask you for your password! www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "An eye for an eye only ends by making the whole world blind. --Mohandas K Gandhi.
