BalanceNG operation as VRRP daemon on Solaris

Figure 1: Network Setup of two X2100 nodes, bge0 and nge0 both connected to the same switch

nge0 interface configuration

The file /etc/hostname.nge0 contains the following line on both nodes:

172.17.2.64/24 -arp ether 00:00:5e:00:01:0e

The effect is that both nodes use the VRRP ethernet address of virtual router 14 (last octet) while not responding to arp requests.

The configuration files

Both configuration files are almost the same, they just differ in VRRP priority and in the "network real" address.

• Node A configuration file
• Node B configuration file

NodeA configuration file

//        configuration taken Sun Jan  7 17:37:02 2007
//        BalanceNG 1.736 (created 2007/01/07)
hostname  NodeA
license   TEST0611021 972bd16262ab0ae4cd2627f1203166d8
set       localvirt 1
interface nge0
vrrp      {
          vrid 14
          priority 201
          network 1
}
network   1 {
          addr 172.17.2.0
          mask 255.255.255.0
          real 172.17.2.63
          virt 172.17.2.64
          interface nge0
}
register  network 1
enable    network 1
//        end of configuration

NodeB configuration file

//        configuration taken Sun Jan  7 20:14:30 2007
//        BalanceNG 1.736 (created 2007/01/07)
hostname  NodeB
license   TEST0611022 b74d38652975623d8358e6faa2b9abf5
set       localvirt 1
interface nge0
vrrp      {
          vrid 14
          priority 200
          network 1
}
network   1 {
          addr 172.17.2.0
          mask 255.255.255.0
          real 172.17.2.62
          virt 172.17.2.64
          interface nge0
}
register  network 1
enable    network 1
//        end of configuration

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