SUMMARY: Weighting netrain interfaces

From: Jonathan Nicholson <jjn_at_sanger.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 08:35:30 +0000 (GMT)

Thanks to all who replied.

There's no way of doing this automatically, however running

        ifconfig tu0 switch

periodically from cron is safe and will have the desired effect.

Thanks again!

Regards,

Jonathan

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jonathan Nicholson wrote:

> I've set up the 2 100Mbs ethernet interfaces on a DS10 as a NetRAIN pair,
> connected to different network switches.
>
> I would like to make the nr0 interface use tu0 under normal circumstances
> as this is connected to a 'core' switch, tu1 is connected to an edge
> switch and will act as a backup in a failure condition.
>
> There doesn't seem to be any way of doing this automatically - anyone know
> if this is possible & if so how to configure this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
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