On 12/11/2012 03:57 PM, Luca Benassi wrote:
> We're running into production and I'm wondering which solution to 
> choose, so ... if you're running pf with at least some k clients ... how 
> have you achieved HA?
> Docs says (for active/passive):
> 1) DB on a remote partition (like a LUN on a SAN)
> 2) DRDB
> 3) remote DB server (in HA itself)
> 
> Do you run one of this?

2 and 3 here.  I am not happy with the failover, though, because while
failing over, we might miss link down traps related to our floating
network device setup.  That would leave ports unprotected.  I'd love an
active/active setup.  I am not sure if two PF instances could be forced
into working with the same (replicated) DB.
I tried to have an external radius server just using the DB to keep the
status quo on the switches if the PF service fails, but it turns out
that the radius service heavily relys on a SOAP connection to the PF web
server, which in turn would be the SPOF then :-(

I am very much open for new ideas related to an active/active PF setup.
I tried to start threads on this earlier but no input so far.  I hope
this one stays alive ...

Cheers Jan

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