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In the information center for IBM i you will find the scenario:


Scenario: Adapter failover using virtual IP and proxy ARP

It has good instructions on how to set it up. Last time I did it I did the entire process in System i Navigator. If I recall correctly some of the process is required to be done there.

Look under:
Networking,
TCP/IP Applications protocols and services,
TCP/IP routing and workload balancing

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 9/14/2011 12:02 PM, Denis Robitaille wrote:
Very interesting.

Thank you

>>> Bryan Dietz<bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx> 2011-09-13 16:33>>>
the "magic" words are VIPA or Proxy ARP.

http://tinyurl.com/6zj3pjh

is a pretty good starting point.

Bryan


Denis Robitaille said the following on 9/13/2011 3:54 PM:
> Hello all,
>
> Currently, we have one network card per system I partition. If the card fails or if the switch in which the card is connected fails, we loose access to the partition.
>
> We want to add a second card per partition. That is the easy part. My problem is that I want to use the same IP address on the 2 interfaces so that if one path fails(the card, the switch ...), the other takes over.
>
> Is it possible?
>
> If so, could someone point me to the right documentation.
>
> Thanks in advance
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