[SunRescue] Sparc 2, Linux and ethernet

[apotter at icsa.net]

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> Right now I have an old Intel box that I use as a router.  It runs RedHat 
> Linux, and has three PCI ethernet cards that Linux recognizes as eth0, 1, 
> and 2.  Works fine.
> 
> However, its old, and, since it is my router, if it dies, the whole net is 
> down.

My solution to this was a newer (also surplus) WinTel board, three PCI quad ethernet cards and OpenBSD (linux disn't line the cards).

It ain't sun, but it was cheap, it rocks, and I have two more open PCI slots which will take me up to 20 10/100 ports easily.

The old linux solution with 5 ethernet cards in it lives directly below the new bos in the rack, preconfigured on the same IPs as the OpenBSD box, with the same routes, wired into the same hubs, but powered off.  If the OpenBSD box dies, power up the linux box and I'm limping along a few ports short, but mostly working.


Hope this helps.....

AL 


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