[nycbug-talk] fave BSD tips/tricks?

[Okan Demirmen]

On Tue 2009.08.25 at 23:08 -0400, Isaac Levy wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Dru Lavigne wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'm finishing up an article for BSD mag on BSD tips and tricks.  
> > Anyone have a favourite tip or trick they'd like to see in this  
> > article?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dru
> 
> 
> 
> Being a huge fan of carp(4) for redundant routers/firewalls, I've  
> recently become terribly enamored with lagg(4), for *extremely* easy  
> link failover, (or aggregation).
> 
> To my knowledge, FreeBSD is all I know that has lagg interfaces.

OpenBSD has had trunk(4) for a while; does lacp, failover, loadbalance,
and roundrobin.  Heck, one can use it to roam from wired to wireless -
there's a tip that differs ;)  Toss bgpd(8) in and there's your HA
network.

> With carp and lagg, (and some redundant upstream infrastructure) one  
> can create full network redundancy all the way up to a server- aside  
> from the network redundancy/HA aspects, it's awesome to be able to  
> upgrade or replace network components in a live network: security  
> upgrades happen easier, hardware gets shuffled on the fly, life is good.
> 
> Rocket-
> .ike
> 
> 
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