I've got a friend Jason who does a lot of fail over firewall work using OpenBSD and carp/pf. Check it out here:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2005/view/e_sess/6475 They have shown very good performance in a corporate environment. As for hardware, you might want to check out these people for the machines to base your system off of: http://ironsystems.com/ You should be able to get a couple of pretty beefy 1U systems to build up your redundant system with here. Take a look at the A-Class iServers. -David On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 11:13 -0500, Greg Brown wrote: > Hey all. I think I finally hit a dead-end with M0n0wall. My outer banks > client now requires fail over from the DSL Internet connection to a 2nd ISP, > probably a cable modem. My research indicates that M0n0 doesn't support > this yet. > > What are my options here besides something like a Cisco 2621xm (WAY too > expensive for this client)? Does anyone know of an inexpensive appliance > that they have tested for fail over Internet? Or can a BSD/Linux box be > built for this purpose? > > Greg -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
