From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] gateway failover with linux
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:15:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469FD455.9050903@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070719170251.GA24923@toroid.org>
On 07/19/07 12:02, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> I'm wondering if there's a good way to configure a Linux firewall box
> to failover to a single backup server, while preserving connection
> state.
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? I'm also not sure how conntrackd (comparable to
OpenBSD's pfsync) is coming in to play here. Or is there more than one
Linux firewall / router that you are wanting to synchronize? Or are you
wanting the connection tracking between the multiple systems behind the
Linux firewall / router? I think that all of these are possible to
various degrees, though each uses a different method to achieve it.
> This question has been asked before, but the latest reference I can
> find is from 2004, at which time Linux had no equivalent of OpenBSD's
> pfsync, though Harald was said to be working on one.
*nod* Conntrackd is the tool that you want to use to synchronize
connection tracking connection meta data between two systems, or the
closest thing that Linux presently has (that I'm aware of).
> Did anything come of those efforts? Or is there now another
> alternative?
Yes, conntrackd.
> Any examples or advice would be appreciated.
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.
Grant. . . .
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2007-07-19 17:14 [LARTC] gateway failover with linux Abhijit Menon-Sen
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