From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 12:42:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [208.164.68.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA2137B88F for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 12:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12247; Thu, 11 May 2000 09:42:40 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:42:39 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Nathan Vidican Cc: Brennan W Stehling , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clustering FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <391B0758.5F0D758C@wmptl.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 May 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: > There are many different ways you can approach this. I'll give you my > two suggestions, but I'd be curious as to what you do end up using? > First off- (this is something we actually implement) you could use a > managed hub to setup resilient port pools, wherein two identical > mirrored machines (both assuming the same IP address) are connected to > say port one, and port 12 of the hub; when the hub detects a loss of > link, or a poor link status (user defined 'poor'), it disconnects one > machine and connects the other. We're utilizing this concept on our > radius boxes, because it allows us to reboot them daily without any > interuption in service (one at noon, one at midnight kinda deal). Okay, just a question but how do you have the machines mirrored? Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message