Josh,
If I am understanding your needs correctly, you want to have one
firewall, but if it should hang, you want anotherone to take it's
place automagically, and kill the hung system so that it doesn't
come back unexpectedly and hose both of them. If this is correct,
then, at the risk of sounding like a marketing weenie, you might
want to check our Kimberlite. That is the clustering software
that was developed by Mission Critical Linux and recently
open-sourced. You can find it @
http://oss.missioncriticallinux.com . And, at the risk this
sounding like a blatent, shameless plug, we even sell support ;-)
FYI,
Kenny
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> Hmm....I guess I should be more specific. I have a firewall that runs
> with IPChains here in our office. If this server should go down I need
> to have a backup server ready to go in place. For the interim I am going
> to setup another identical system, and just copy the ruleset over to the
> firewall periodically. In this case, I would shutdown and turn off the
> non-functioning firewall, and turn on the backup firewall. This system
> will work, but I am not keen on driving down to my office at 3 am on a
> saturday night to swap out a down server. I would really like to have a
> system where I have two firewalls, if where the primary crashes then the
> secondary system will take over, and assume the ip's of the primary
> firewall. Also when the primary firewall comes back up the secondary
> firewall relinquishes control to the primary. This should accomplish my
> goal of allowing me to get my beauty rest. Believe me I need it. Does
> anyone have any knowledge of how this may be implemented in this way, or
> know of any projects out there that already do this.
>
> Thanks
> Josh
>
> Cole Tuininga wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > I am looking for information on setting up a IPchains Firewall system
> > > with redundant servers, and failover capability. I have been looking,
> > > and have found some information on commercial products that provide
> > > these capabilities, but I wanted to know if anyone else on the list
> > > knows of any projects, or products that will do this.
> >
> > Could Eddie be at least a part of what you want?
> >
> > http://www.eddieware.org/
> >
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> > Cole Tuininga
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