Re: More ramblings from the annoying route engine guy...

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22.10.2004, at 15:54, Pete wrote:
> Hi, would this not be covered fairly well by a combination of Link 
> Aggregation (802.ad) Spanning Tree along with carp. That way you have 
> your 4 gige ports in a aggregate group with a second redundant 
> aggregate group for failover. Then having another layer of failover 
> with carp, or something along those lines. It would need some 
> modifications to the code but i think less than the schema you 
> envisage.

I'd say it's something quite different. Joshua is talking about 
different connected routers and thus different routes via different 
*virtual* interfaces, you are talking about different *physical* 
interfaces connected to (probably) one router. Plus the failover.

This means: it would be nice to have both :)

cheers
  simon

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