From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Coene Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:28:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] failover strategies - failing open vs. failing closed. Message-Id: <200412282028.21562.stef.coene@docum.org> List-Id: References: <292B2D5F863ED611BB8B0008021089550315970E@aux.uwm.edu> In-Reply-To: <292B2D5F863ED611BB8B0008021089550315970E@aux.uwm.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/