Requirements
- You have an account and are logged into the Dedibox console
- You have created a Dedibox dedicated server
This page shows you how to configure a failover IP on Dedibox servers running on FreeBSD.
Connect to your server using SSH.
Open the network configuration file in a text editor, for example nano
:
nano /etc/rc.conf
Add the following line to the file, replace FAILOVER_IP
with your failover IP address:
ifconfig_em0_alias0="inet FAILOVER_IP netmask 255.255.255.255"
Your modified configuration file should look like the following example:
ifconfig_em0="inet IP_ADDRESS netmask 255.255.255.0"defaultrouter="IP_ADDRESS"sshd_enable="YES"ntpd_enable="YES"ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"syslogd_flags="-ss"fsck_y_enable="YES"ifconfig_em0_alias0="inet FAILOVER_IP netmask 255.255.255.255"
Save the file and exit the text editor.
Restart the network to activate the new IP address:
/etc/rc.d/netif restart && /etc/rc.d/routing restart