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I've just bought a dedicated server in OVH.com and they are sending me some warnings in email that I haven't configured my IP Failover address correctly and they're going to block this failover within 24 hours if I won't take any actions.

So, the question is, how should IP Failover be configured properly in FreeBSD 8.2?

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    What kind of failover (CARP between two machines? Multiple NICs failing over if the link goes down?)
    – voretaq7
    Dec 14, 2011 at 20:19
  • I think this one: Multiple NICs failing over if the link goes down.
    – Cyclone
    Dec 15, 2011 at 9:56
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    The answer to that question substantially changes the answer (multiple NICs in one box is lagg(4) -- Link aggregation (see James' answer). Multiple machines passing around one address to make sure stuff stays up when one machine goes down is carp(4) - the Common Address Redundancy Protocol. For extra redundancy you can even combine the two :-)
    – voretaq7
    Dec 15, 2011 at 16:28

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Have a look at lagg(4) (FreeBSD Handbook entry). The ifconfig commands you need are:

ifconfig em0 up
ifconfig em1 up
ifconfig lagg0 laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport em1 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

(Substitute em0, em1, IP address and netmask as appropriate.)

The equivalent for rc.conf is:

ifconfig_em0="up"
ifconfig_em1="up"
cloned_interfaces="lagg0"
ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport em1 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
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  • +1 for linking to the handbook, source of all FreeBSD knowledge (and a pretty darn good general *NIX reference)
    – voretaq7
    Dec 15, 2011 at 16:27

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