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 guru is quite opposed to using the loadbalancing
>  option since it comes with a lot of potentially undesirable baggage of its
>  own...

Then your best option is to patch lagg(4) with an "avail" algorithm, that 
prefers $master and sticks with an interface till it's detected down. When 
done properly the chances are good to get this into base.
Another approach would be to change the failover with a 'fader' algorithm, 
that gradually fades from one nic to the other, kind of like an audio mixer, 
though I'm not sure if that's possible and would work satisfactory.
-- 
Mel
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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 comes with a lot of potentially undesirable baggage of its own...

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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 currently active interface, even if the MASTER interface comes back
>  online?

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?
-- 
Mel
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