[comp.sys.apollo] dual Ethernet gateway query

dennis@PEANUTS.NOSC.MIL (Dennis Cottel) (01/23/88)

Our Apollo ring is connected to the corporate Ethernet via a DSP80A
gateway.  I would like to put a second Ethernet card in another node
as a backup.  As I read the documents, the TCP environment can be set
up so that if one gateway is down, the second will be used.  Is this
correct, and does anyone have a similar configuration that is currently
working?

    Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
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jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (01/28/88)

	We are currently running in this mode, but since we have not had much
of a chance to try it out, I can't say how helpful it is.  It doesn't seem to
cause us any problems, however, so it is at least no harm done.

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