Hi Christof,

 could you send me your last hb_report and a copy of your whitepaper in 
DOC-Format ? I will take a look ...


Thanks !

Nikita Michalko


Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2008 17:26 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I apologize in advance for the top posting and the horrible web based
> e-mail....  I'm on the road.
>
>
> I wrote a whitepaper/book about building Internet firewalls using Linux
> based systems, and have been keeping it up until relatively recently.  It
> includes a chapter on using Heartbeat in order to manage an active/passive
> firewall setup.  The book itself is centered around RHEL/CentOS, but the
> majority of it would work for pretty much any Linux distribution.
>
> The main reason I haven't been keeping it up is that I am working on the
> "Second Edition" of it.  The original was based around the 4.x version of
> RHEL/CentOS.  The new version will be based around the 5.x version.
>
>
> Another important note is that in the old version, it uses 2.0.8 of
> Heartbeat.  The new version will be using 2.1.3, but the config files, at
> least as far as a firewall is concerned, look like they will be the same.
>
> I'd be more than happy to send you a copy.  I can either send you the PDF
> of it or the DOC version of it.
>
>
> Dear list members,
>
> at the moment I try to setup a linux cluster of 2 firewalls that should
> both be online and only one should run virtual ip addresses of all
> network segments.
>
> My configuration looks like the following:
>       master fw is linux (uname) and slave is idefix. I generated a
> resource group called grp_vips that contains all virtual      ip
> resources (rsc_int_vip and rsc_ext_vip). If I reboot the master (linux)
> idefix takes over all resources and   everything is ok, but if I
> shutdown a resource (rsc_int_vip) on the master the second resource
> (rsc_ext_vip) migrates        to the slave (idefix) and the first resource
> (rsc_int_vip) stays at the master (linux) as unmanaged. Attached are the
> ha.cf and cib.xml files of my configuration.
>
> What I want to achieve is:
>       - one dedicated master (linux), only, if there are problems
> switch to the slave (idefix)
>       - if the master comes back (or only the interface that was gone)
> the whole group should migrate
>               back to the primary master (linux)
>       - if one resource of the group goes down, the whole group should
> be migrated to the slave
>               (collocated = true of the group is already set)
>       - if possible, the slave should become master (to always have
> the master where the resources are running
>
> One feature I detected also with my init scripts on Opensuse 10.3 is
> that heartbeat sometimes (80%)
> does not start because the network is not ready. I downloaded heartbeat
> rpms from the linux-ha download
> site and I'm using heartbeat 2.1.3.
>
> Any hints how I can achieve what I want are highly appreciated.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Best regards
>
> Christof
>
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