Re: Last chance failover

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Author: Kevin
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To: PLUG-DISCUSS
Subject: Re: Last chance failover
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 16:46 -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Unfortunately, it doesn't work in my situation. My secondary NIC is
> a USB
> wireless card and when I do the 'ifenslave bond0 eth0 wlan0', the wlan0
> device goes down in a sea of /var/log/messages error messages. For
> whatever reason, the act of bonding the wlan0 device will take it out
> completely.


Doh, didn't see that one coming!

Well, as I see it you need to resort to a script that routinely checks
for reachability across the wired NIC and brings up the wireless NIC if
the wired side stops responding. Of course, this will break established
TCP sessions.

...Kevin


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