sounds like you are describing a load balancing switch ... two seperate boxes behind the switch, with a single "public" IP in front that sends a heartbeat to the boxes behind it ...
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Rick Duvall wrote: > I wasn't sure if it was BGP or if it was something else. Definetly between > routers would be using BGP. But, I heard at an apache conference somebody > was doing something where the machine would send a keepalive to the directly > connected Cisco router, and if the router didn't receive the keepalive > signal, BGP would re-route the traffic to the other host. Both hosts are on > different ISP, but have the same IP address. Traffic is routed from the > requester to the closest logical server. I think UltraDNS does this with > their DNS servers as well. > > Anyway, I don't know what the host uses to send the keepalive to the Cisco > router, or even how to configure the BGP to make it work. I was wondering > if somebody on the list has set up the same configuration on a couple of > fault tolerant FreeBSD boxes. > > Sincerely, > > Rick Duvall > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Rick Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:26 AM > Subject: Re: BGP On Host > > > > > (mirrored). If both hosts are up, the traffic is routed to the closes > > > server to the person making the request. Otherwise, if one server is > down, > > > traffic is automatically re-routed to the other box. > > > > That is not what BGP is made for. It's an exterior routing protocol for > > routes between AS. > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
