If you are lucky and have drivers and os'es working as they should sure that is how active/passive works.
Unfortunatly i've seen to many instances where thing simply dont work as intended.
Now op is a hosting provider letting clients configure stuff. Sound like a nightmare waiting to happen.
Furthermore if one isnt very carefull the uplink switches stp will be triggered by a rapid swapping active link , which causes it to simply disable the whole up/down link..
Assuming there are more servers connected.. outch
I simply do not understand why a for crying out loud HOSTING PROVIDER isn't preparing for the worst case scenario.
For me personally his proposed solution wouldnt even be acceptable for a home lab, not to mention active/passive is not for me,who would want just redundancy and invest in that, while for just a few dollar/euro one can do it properly.
Of course this is just my 2 cents..
You build infra to last and be robust...
Unfortunatly i've seen to many instances where thing simply dont work as intended.
Now op is a hosting provider letting clients configure stuff. Sound like a nightmare waiting to happen.
Furthermore if one isnt very carefull the uplink switches stp will be triggered by a rapid swapping active link , which causes it to simply disable the whole up/down link..
Assuming there are more servers connected.. outch
I simply do not understand why a for crying out loud HOSTING PROVIDER isn't preparing for the worst case scenario.
For me personally his proposed solution wouldnt even be acceptable for a home lab, not to mention active/passive is not for me,who would want just redundancy and invest in that, while for just a few dollar/euro one can do it properly.
Of course this is just my 2 cents..
You build infra to last and be robust...
