In a message dated: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:28:00 EDT
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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.
Josh,
Kimberlite does exactly this. Keep in mind, you also need 2 Virtual IPs,
one for the internal NICs and one for external NICs. I do not believe
Heartbeat accomodates for this. Kimberlite does.
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Seeya,
Paul
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