Re: Switching daemons between boxes
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:09:01PM +0200, John Smith wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to be able to switch application daemons between
> separate debian boxes and am looking for the most efficient way
> to move the ip-address with it with as little hardcoding the
> addresses as possible, in order to make the move completely
> transparant to the users.
>
> In my opinion the most efficient way would be to set up
> the applications ip address as a secondary one (eth0:1 etc.) and
> bring it up and down as part of the process of starting and
> stopping the application.
>
> After breaking my head over trying to use the logical
> device mapping with ifupdown and only finally realising this is
> meant to be used the other way around, I'm out of options and
> ideas.
>
> Anybody do this before/has any hints, tips?
>
At least from the command line
ifconfig eth0:1 <ip> ...
I think you could also put an entry in /etc/network interfaces of the
sort:
iface eth0:1 inet static
...
But I don't know much about that.
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jan.
>
>
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