Today, Paul Lussier gleaned this insight:
> >Yea, that's what I was trying to describe as possible in the paragraph
> >below. I just had a hard enough time doing the 1st picture. The only
> >issue would be if you're doing any kind of logging on the firewall,
> >although I suppose (I haven't set up LVS, don't know if it can do
> >this) you could do the logging to something on the internal LAN, so
> >when the 1st FW failed, the 2nd could pick it up, & keep logging. Or,
> >you just accept that you could lose your log on the primary firewall
> >if it goes down, and use the log on the second one.
>
> Well, actually, I've realized you can't use LVS for this. LVS is really more
> Load Balancing oriented and relies upon ethernet for node-status tracking.
> This essentially removes LVS from the picture, and therefore Pirahna or
> UltraMonkey. Kimberlite is perfect for this scenario, since it has triple
> redundancy in this area in the form of:
But you can use heartbeat, which is part of the Linux-HA project.
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