From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 12:50:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF6337B424; Wed, 9 May 2001 12:50:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=a5c5f56aa5856f0af74362e573ea7051) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14xZyJ-0000Ab-00; Wed, 09 May 2001 13:50:07 -0600 Message-ID: <3AF99F6F.3888588B@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 13:50:07 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outgoing traffic load balancing with multiple ISP References: <006901c0d5a9$b2e4c3e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Our redundancy is at the point where we have more of a problem detecting > that links are actually down and notifying the admin! Once we went for 6 > hours with a feed down because the What's Up box was pinging the wrong IP > number, and no customers or administrators noticed it because the network > didn't seem any slower or different than it normally is. mrtg? > Now that's redundancy for you. Er, resilient? They're only redundant if you're not using them. http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200105/dadvocate.html ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message