[nycbug-talk] fave BSD tips/tricks?

[Okan Demirmen]

On Tue 2009.08.25 at 23:26 -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote:
> On Tue 2009.08.25 at 23:08 -0400, Isaac Levy wrote:
> > 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.

oh (almost forgot what list i'm on), before someone goes and accuses me
of running bgpd over wireless while roaming, that last sentence was
meant merely to be a *different* example of the use of carp, trunk and
bgpd - much like ike's below.

> > 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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