Hi geeks,

Do we have any option to failover two ethernet cards on centos 5.5?
well actually m badly stuck on a situation. I have two ISP lines and both can be inserted on two wan(external) ethernet ports. but only the line works whose route to gateway is at top of routing table.
say if we have route of ISP1 at top of routing table only that works and if that line is down, the other doesn't work at all
Please suggest something!!!
i tried ethernet bonding algorithm by googling, but that requires creation of a virtual interface and the IP of that virtual interface is assigned to WAN ethernet... so cant assign the static IPs provided by ISPs at all.....

Thanks in advance

bonding isn't appropriate here, as the two connections go to different destinations. You can easily script something to manually update routes based on simple diagnostic tests if you want, just a handful of bash lines really. But you may also be interested in reading through chapter 4 or lartc.org which deals with multiple ISP uplinking.

In terms of what a simple script could do, you can pick two IP addresses and statically route one IP to each link. Pick, for example, google's main name servers 4.4.4.4 and 4.4.8.8. if you can ping ip 1 then link 1 is fine, so you ensure the routes to pass traffic along that link are in the routing table. If you can't ping it a few times, you take the route out. Pretty simple stuff if you're not looking at aggregating bandwidth etc.