Lan Card redundancy on HPUX

[David Callaghan]

Hi,

I have two lan interfaces on my HP K series.
How do I set them up so that one is primary, one secondary, and a fialover occurs in the case of failure?

[Jorge Pons]

Hi

This is MPE/ix Forum, for HP3000. If you have a HPUX (HP9000)... The answer is MC Service Guard, but you need more hardware.
When you have two or more Lan Cards, the recomendation is that lan cards works in different Lans.

Regards

[Bernhard Mueller]

Hi,

just for LAN card failover you do not need MC/SG, that would be a bit expensive.

First choice is APA (Auto Port Aggregation), which allows you to aggregate or trunk several LAN interfaces (of the same type!) to a "big" one and/or allow for LAN card failover.

Second choice is that you write a script, that monitors the network and initiates the actions for failover if necessary. This would require some scripting work.

Regards
Bernhard

[Zigor Buruaga]

Hi,

Check this link:

http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x98b979bffde7d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Kind regards,
Zigor