topic Re: Binding one IP address to different lan cards in Operating System - HP-UX

Binding one IP address to different lan cards

Sac77 — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:00:19 GMT

Hi,

How can we bind one IP address to different lan cards ? or How can we configure the Redundancy for IP Address ?

please let me know the steps to...thanks!

Re: Binding one IP address to different lan cards

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:03:32 GMT

You need the product "Auto Port Aggregation" to do this.

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=J4240AA

Re: Binding one IP address to different lan cards

Basheer_2 — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:45:44 GMT

Yes, Patrick is right

you need HP's APA product

Re: Binding one IP address to different lan cards

Pete Randall — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:53:42 GMT

Yeah, me too, me too. What he said.

Pete

Re: Binding one IP address to different lan cards

Sac77 — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:08:40 GMT

Thanks, anyways for redundancy can i use MC/service guard ?

Re: Binding one IP address to different lan cards

Basheer_2 — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:00:35 GMT

Yes you can use service guard for HA ( high availability), as the product name is MC/Sg Mission Critical serviceguard.

Briefly.
you have apps running in one node and if that node is down, serviceguard is configured to automatically moved to the second node ( failover node) and if the first node is broguht online, you can move back from the 2nd node to the first node ( primary node)

Re: Binding one IP address to different lan cards

Jim Keeble — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:09:32 GMT

Serviceguard also does provide a local failover of a primary lan interface to a standby interface on the same system. It's possible to configure a one node "cluster" if local lan failover is all you require.

APA is included with the OS and downloadable for free with HP-UX 11.31 at software.hp.com. Prior versions (11.11/11.23) may be purchased at the same site.

With cooperation from the network switch, APA can provide a trunk type interface for increased bandwidth as well as redundancy, or a primary/standby configuration (called Lan Monitor). Serviceguard can only provide the primary/standby type.

Hope this helps.

Re: Binding one IP address to different lan cards

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:18:06 GMT

Shalom,

Thanks, anyways for redundancy can i use MC/service guard ?

You can use APA or you can use MC SG standby LAN.

Both will help with High availability. APA can let you improve overall band width if that is an issue.

SEP