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3Com makes a NIC like that. It works wonderfully. I think it may
even load balance too, but I'm not sure.
Carric Dooley
Network Security Consultant
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rogue Bolo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Kathy Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: [FW1] Failover NICs?
>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Rogue Bolo wrote:
>
> > It is called VRRP. It is an open standard in draft form awaiting
> > final vote. It is used by 13 major manufacturers currently and
> > does exactly what you are looking for.
>
> nope. she wanted one system with two NICs in the same hardware box
> that would failover for each other.
>
> > --- Kathy Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > We are trying to build some fault tolerance into our Checkpoint
> > FW system (Solaris on a Sun Ultra). Does anybody know of any
> > NICs which can be configured for failover, ie if NIC A fails,
> > then NIC B takes over for it, and assumes the failed NICs IP
> > address?
>
> check out the alteon nics. www.alteonwebsystems.com.
>
> - brett
>
>
>
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