[Nottingham] NIC MACs aliases & IP aliases

[Martin]

Martin wrote:
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> One 'trick' that looks to be good is to use the kernel TUN/TAP and 
> bridging modules to set up:
> 
> 
> tap0 ---|
>          |
>          br0 --- eth0
>          |
> tap1 ---|
> 
> 
> so that eth0 just looks/behaves like the port on a network switch 
> connected to two (virtual) physical devices tap0 and tap1 (and as many 
> others as you wish). Looks ideal for fail-over and whatever else...

Anyone used/using vrrpd?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vrrpd/

Good idea or superseded by something else?


Cheers,
Martin

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