Re: [Leaf-devel] panic kernel argument.

2002-08-14 Thread David Douthitt
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 06:56:49PM +0200, Ivan Lloro wrote: As LEAF is usually used in stand-alone routers- gateways I suggest passing to the kernel the argument panic=X by default. X is the number of seconds the system will wait before automatically rebooting itself after a kernel

Re: [Leaf-devel] Multiple upstream links

2002-08-14 Thread Tom Eastep
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, guitarlynn wrote: On Tuesday 13 August 2002 12:31, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Not that I have time to mess with this, but what's the current state of the art regarding multiple upstream internet connections and possible bandwidth sharing? I believe Shorewall has

Re: [Leaf-devel] Multiple upstream links

2002-08-14 Thread David Douthitt
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:31:22PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Also...I recently got a nifty trick from the local linux users group regarding time-servers: quote Does someone knows of a time server that I can use to synchronize my linux box at boot time? There are a bunch

Re: [Leaf-devel] LVS and LRP

2002-08-14 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 02:37:41PM +1200, Simon Blake wrote: Before I dive in and spend a bunch of time getting the varios LVS tools (mon, heartbeat, fake and so forth) packaged for Bering, has anybody done any of this sort of thing before? Links to packages? Gotchas? I've not done it with

Re: [Leaf-devel] LVS and LRP

2002-08-14 Thread Simon Blake
Hi David - yes, I'd observed the stuff about arp patches for Linux, but I'd assumed that was primarily of interest if you were doing redundant directors. In my case, I just need to get load sharing going through a single director ASAP, so hopefully the whole ARP issue won't bite me (that, and

RE: [Leaf-devel] Multiple upstream links

2002-08-14 Thread Eric B Kiser
Howdy Charles, Perhaps I can help with your BGP question. [snip] Has anyone tried anything similar with BGP (or similar routing protocols)? It seems reasonable to expect a router that's not too many hops away (ie the ISP, or the ISP's upstream provider) would be running BGP, and while it's

RE: [Leaf-devel] Multiple upstream links

2002-08-14 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Eric B Kiser wrote: [...] The best reference for load balancing is Jack Coates site. He does a great job of summing up the major concerns with load balancing and offering suggestions on how to make it work. There is some great information there and it is a quick read.

Re: [Leaf-devel] panic kernel argument.

2002-08-14 Thread Ivan Lloro
That's right. But I just pointed the convenience of setting this behaviour as default. How it is implemented is really irrelevant. It was just an oppinion. Anyway, thanks for your response. I've learned the command sysctl which it was unknown for me. On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, David