Bryan Irvine wrote: > I tried before with 2 quad cards to no avail. That was under 3.6 > though IIRC. 1 or 2 if's would fail over within a couple of hours, > but if left to it's own devices, eventually they all would. > > If you do figure something out lemme know, I'd love to go back to the > quad cards. > > ifstated didn't work for me but give it a go. I also had a script on > each machine that would ping the other every 5 seconds for ever.... > The interfaces seemed to last longer but eventually failed that way > too. > > --Bryan
The interfaces that I'm having the most problem with are the built-in interfaces on a Compaq DL360 (I misstated earlier that it was a dual interface nic) although I have two other dual port nics in the machine. I wonder if the built-in looks like a dual port nic? I find it odd that the problem might be related to the multi-port nic. Did you try the same configuration with single port nics and it worked? I'm beginning to think it might be a component of the number of carp interfaces (you would likely have more carp interfaces on a machine with multiport nics.) Ifstated was broken for me on 3.8-stable too. I notice some changes in the 3.9 version so I compiled the 3.9 source under 3.8 and ifstated works *much* better. Perhaps it should be posted for 3.8 as a "reliability patch." -Steve S.
