RE: Virtual IP for Failover Questions

[Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The 10.99.99.x subnet does not exist.  I used host routes thru the physical
interfaces to get to the virtual IP address.  Both subnets know how to get
to each other.  Both subnets have a local primary router and secondary route
thru the router to the other subnet.  If the local interface / route is
down, the dft router sends the packets to the other subnet.  The other
subnet send the packet to the local interface on that subnet.  99.999% of
the time the packets stay on the local subnet.  Now if both interfaces are
down.  The dft routers can start a loop of sending the packets back and
forth with out some routing protocol reporting that the local route is down,
don't send it to me.  In which case you should get a message from the local
default route that no route is available.

Chris Bipes

-----Original Message-----
From: CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Chris,

Thanks for the info.  But I'm wondering how this works; how are the clients
on both subnets configured? Are there any clients on the 10.99.99.x subnet
with the iSeries?