HP-UX Embedded Lancard protection

[Enrico Venturi]

The target is HP Server N series, with 4 lan cards.
I want to protect the lan card 3 using the 4 one:
e.g. 121.2.3.15 must be on lan3 if running, or on lan4 otherwise.
Moreover I want to be able to run OTS9000 on top
of these two lancards without any awareness that they are 2 and not only one ....
in other words I'd like to use a single virtual lan card
which hides two real cards, running in a 1+1 protection schema.
I don't want to use MC-service guard.
Do you know if HP-UX has embedded capabilities to manage this kind of protection? Or if such capabilities are planned in some future releases?

Thank you.

[James A. Donovan · Accepted solution]

HP calls their solution to your problem Auto Port Aggregation. Use this link to get a description. Last I looked, I think a license for the product cost about $1300.

http://www.unixservers.hp.com/unixserverconnectivity/software/auto_port.html

[Enrico Venturi]

Is this solution valid only for IP addresses or also for OSI ones?