From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Abhijit Menon-Sen Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:32:32 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Re: gateway failover with linux Message-Id: <20070720012032.GA29284@toroid.org> List-Id: References: <20070719172500.GA25266@toroid.org> In-Reply-To: <20070719172500.GA25266@toroid.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Hi Grant. At 2007-07-19 16:15:01 -0500, gtaylor@riverviewtech.net wrote: > > I'm a bit confused, are you wanting a single Linux firewall / > router to have redundant internet connections, or to route > traffic to redundant systems behind it and intelligently > handle the failure of one or more of said redundant systems? Neither. I just want a hot standby for a single Linux firewall, such that clients behind it are not affected by a hardware failure on the firewall. If my configuration would allow me to someday promote the backup and run both firewall machines in a load-balancing configuration, so much the better. The following example looks very much like what I want: http://people.netfilter.org/pablo/conntrack-tools/testcase.html (Can anyone comment on whether I should stick with keepalived as described above, or try out ucarp?) > Will you please clarify what you are really wanting to do per > above and I'll be more than happy to try to point you in the > right direction. Thanks, I'd appreciate any advice you can give me. -- ams _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc