18 Sep
1998
18 Sep
'98
5:27 p.m.
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Val Bercovici wrote:
Unfortunately, one of the things we don't automatically trigger a failover on in our first Clustered Failover release will be a "normal" interface link failure (OTOH, if a NIC fries its PCI slot, we will failover).
When that happens, is the entire filer shut down and control transferred to the filer, or is the software able to failover individual interfaces (and, say, not take over the disk shelves)? On a failover situation, since the MAC addresses are migrated, do we need enough physical Ethernet interfaces on one filer to cover for both, or can one port appear with more than one MAC address?
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
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