Needless to say, make sure your patches are available under the GPL :-) Now looking at my recent discovery http://www.endian.it/en/community/ The Endian Firewall, actually has the bonding driver available, so your job is made simpler a lot here. I am currently testing Endian for my home network, and id does not fail to impress me. look at some screenshots: http://www.endian.it/en/community/about/screenshots/
Cheers Szemir On January 27, 2007 04:14, bogi wrote: > What i meant is, grab one of these, > http://downloads.smoothwall.org/source/2.0/smoothwall-2.0.src.tar.gz > for example, it will build a smoothwall for you entirely from source. Now > what you really want is download an extra module compile it and (plant) it > among the modules for your smoothwall kernel. Now you have a failover > capability, configure it according to the instructions on your newly built > firewall, and make sure you have plenty of connections and nicks to > fail-over-to. Very similar scenario goes for ipCop. So you actually create > a new install image and use that for your customers. > Cheers > Szemir > > On January 27, 2007 00:17, Jon wrote: > > I sincerely wish I was smart enough to know what you were talking about > > :) > > > > J > > > > bogi wrote: > > > You could allways add a bonding device and set it up with multiple > > > nicks, than you would have multiple isp failover. I have tried the > > > bonding device setup, and it works very well. You could build it into > > > either ipcop or smoothwall, since both make source code distributions > > > of themselves available, just rebuild them with the bonding module > > > available as a module for the kernel. The rest of the configuration , > > > while not simple, is straight foreword. > > > > > > http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Bonding > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/marcelo/linux-2.4/Documen > > >ta tion/networking/bonding.txt > > > http://linux-ip.net/html/ether-bonding.html > > > > > > Cheers > > > Szemir > > > > > > On January 26, 2007 16:14, Jon wrote: > > >> Kevin Anderson wrote: > > >>> like the dual ISP ability. > > >> > > >> Hot failover? We have a couple of sites looking for this capability. > > >> > > >> J > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
