You would never want to have two boxes simultaneously using the same IP
address in a failover scheme.  They might well double-enter data.  Any
partners talking to them also might complain about getting duplicate data,
or worse, incomprehensible data.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Digital
> Wokan
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 11:31 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Linux as backup (failover) machine
>
>
> The only real show-stopper I see in your solution is that the NT box
> would have to hold off activating it's IP address on the network
> attached card until the Linux box had relinquished the IP.  (Windows
> hates trying to use an IP that's already assigned.)