Hi, Yup, that's the way we do it overhere. At the main site where I host the mailserver, all the webservers, etc. I have a HP server running CentOS (Redhat Enterprise Linux without the logo's), the backup is a cheap clone PC with the same config.
On error: Switch kabels, push power on button. ;-) Normally the backup machine is connected to my inner network, that way I can have it download patches etc to keep it up2date. I even have two different configs on the machine so it can be backup for two different firewall machines. Met vriendelijke groet, Bonno Bloksma hoofd systeembeheer tio hogeschool hotelmanagement en toerisme begijnenhof 8-12 / 5611 el eindhoven t 040 296 28 28 / f 040 237 35 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.tio.nl ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Barker To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:31 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Firewall solutions... And, they are cheap enough, you can have a standby machine ready to go on a minute's notice. No service contract is ever that fast. Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Firewall solutions... Linux + http://www.shorewall.net/ Easy and flexible! Great results so far. There must be many 1000s of free firewalls running on FreeBSD and Linux, with plenty of complete pkgs, how-to's, boot from cdrom/flash, no disk, etc, with all the major features of proprietary firewalls, and with many of the minor features. No annual hardware/software contracts in perpetuity, just another PC. Len
