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From: Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] failover strategies - failing open vs. failing closed.
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:28:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412282028.21562.stef.coene@docum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <292B2D5F863ED611BB8B0008021089550315970E@aux.uwm.edu>

On Tuesday 28 December 2004 14:29, Kelly Jeglum wrote:
> I'd like to setup a box with 2 NICs as a firewall which will also rate
> limits outbound traffic.  What happens when/if that box hangs or is
> rebooted?
>
> I'd like a solution that when there is a failure, traffic can still go
> through the box even though the firewall and rate limiting functions will
> no longer be in effect.
I'm afraid that's not possible if the box is also doing NAT.  What you can do 
is use 2 boxes and only 1 of them is active.  If it fails, the other takes 
over.
Take a look at http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/.  You need the loadbalancer 
part of it.


Stef
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-28 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-28 13:29 [LARTC] failover strategies - failing open vs. failing closed Kelly Jeglum
2004-12-28 14:50 ` Amit Vyas
2004-12-28 17:01 ` Francisco Pereira
2004-12-28 19:28 ` Stef Coene [this message]
2005-01-06 22:16 ` Jose Luis Araujo
2005-01-10 17:49 ` Yaman Saqqa

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