* Tom Martin <[email protected]> [2009-05-08 15:22]: > Hi allWe are now busy implementing a redundancy environment using > openBSD4.5 with OpenBGPD. In this setting we use a CARP interface to > realize a failover between the primary and the secondary route-server. > With the virtual IP-address we have to admit, the failover works > perfect! But it only works when the total server crashes and the > bvirtual IPb is not reachable anymore. Does anyone of you know a > solution to monitor a port (the port of OpenBGPD (179)), and if the > port isnbt reachable anymore to start the failover instead of starting > it when the whole IP address is unreachable?
look for "demote" in bgpd.conf(5). doesn't prevent you from bgpd crashing, but that is not supposed to happen anyway(tm) -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
