Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-17 Thread Leonid Podolny
Dotan Cohen wrote: All they did was take my money, and when I could not connect for three days they refused to help me. After three days I had to sign up with another ISP just to get an internet connection, and Netvision refues to let me out of my one-year contract with them. IANAL and such,

Re: High availability virtual ip

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Linux-HA is one solution, as has been suggested; another, much easier to set up, is UCARP -- http://www.ucarp.org/. It handles your virtual IP and the ARP caching issues associated with it (by means of a GARP packet). I had a good experience with it. --Alex

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
IANAL and such, but there is a law that says that you can cancel a service up to the point that they started actually giving you this service. I experienced it at the very similar situation some years ago: I switched ISPs (012 to Actcom, I think) because the former one wouldn't give the DHCP

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-06-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 01 June 2009 00:50:47 geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Jun 1, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: There was a company who made a lot of noise around providing MAC compatibles recently. They finally wen bankrupt a while ago.

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:05:24PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Bad example. Psystar was built on selling computers with stolen copies of MacOS. According to the EULA (which was enforcable in the US), you can only use it on a real Apple Mac. stolen? How were they stolen? Did Psystar

RE: High availability virtual ip

2009-06-17 Thread Biran, Yahav (Yahav)
Many thanks, from some reasons I managed to install it only on 32 bit. But this is not an issue. I created the following setup. the two hosts are running on actual ips 172.16.4.195 and 172.16.4.191 respectively. The shared ip to be used by the two servers is 172.16.4.242. this ip is available

[TelFOSS] Announcement: Programming Red Flags on Sunday, 28-June-2009

2009-06-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! The Tel Aviv Open Source Club invites everyone to a talk by Yaron Meiry (Sawyer) about Programming Red Flags - on Sunday, 28-June-2009. (Notice the one week postponement). The meeting will take place at Tel Aviv University, at the Schreiber MathsCS building, room 008 on 18:30. So mark

Re: High availability virtual ip

2009-06-17 Thread Biran, Yahav (Yahav)
i used fake and it is working very well, thanks all On 6/16/09, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Marc Volovic marcvolo...@me.com writes: Hi First, the problem is not an IP, but the mac-ip mapping and ARP caching strategies. Second, don't use ping. Third, do use project