Erlang distribution with redundant network

Roger Lipscombe roger@REDACTED
Thu Apr 9 14:25:44 CEST 2020


> The usage is obvious: assign one of the interfaces a primary role and use
> it while it is up and automatically fall back to the secondary when it goes down.
> Also I would naturally want to monitor both connections.
> Does Erlang support this out of the box somehow? And if not are there
> any reasonably mature 3rd party libraries available?

Can you not do something with a virtual NIC at a lower layer? That is:
somehow persuade the OS (which OS?) to aggregate the two links so it's
transparent to Erlang/OTP (and everything else)?


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