Failover or load balancing configuration on Apple Xserve and Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard (10.6)

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Published on 2010-03-05T16:02:09Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 23:38 UTC
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I'm currently installing a number of Apple Xserve boxes running Mac OS X Server (10.6). After poking and prodding for a while I can't find any obvious way, or documentation telling me how, to set up the 2 ethernet ports in a failover or load-balancing configuration.

There seems to be an obvious way to do link aggregation, but not failover or load-balancing? What's the default configuration if I enable both ports with the same (manually configured) IP address?

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