I know that in previous versions, the primary and backup Internet Interfaces had to be on separate subnets, and, in most cases (99%) of the time, that's what you normally end up with. I have a situation with a customer where they rent space to another customer of ours, and they are both on the same Telecom service provider, which is providing them both 1 T1 apiece. They would like to provide each other "failover" service in the event one of the other's T1s go down (which has happened already once, local loop issue). This is a special service with combined telephone (POTS) and Internet service... the strange thing is how this telecom service provider provisions the static IPs on this service... it's basically a flat address space (almost like cable), with both using the same subnet and gateway (typically, with T1-class service, one gets a unique, small, subnet per connection... of course, the Astaro does not perform the uplink failover function properly on the older versions because of this issue.
Question: does the new uplink daemon support failover with the two uplink subnets being the same? I have a feeling I'm going to start running into this more and more, as this service is becoming more prevalent in our area.
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