* Tobias Weingartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-11 08:03]: > On Friday, November 11, Karl Kopp wrote: > > > > We are in the process of setting up a production OBSD box to do some (a > > lot!) of routing and I want to make sure I get as much redundancy as > > possible. We have failover everything in the box, and we will use carp to > > setup multiple boxes. > > If you use carp to fail-over full boxes, why complicate and add to the > potential failure modes of each box? Keep each box simple, and chances > are it will keep running and be more reliable.
very important point, and that is what we do. we also often use CF instead of real harddisks with dumb IDE-CF adapters. the CF then just shows up as wd0. Don't bother with "specialized" flash distributions, waste of time and useless complication. just get a 256M+ CF and do an openbsd standard install. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
