From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 16 3:17: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from postfix1.free.fr (postfix1.free.fr [212.27.32.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 683DE37C1CF for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 03:17:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephane@libertysurf.fr) Received: from sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo (unknown [213.228.20.169]) by postfix1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06E928649 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:17:00 +0100 (MET) Received: (from stephane@localhost) by sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA28698; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 02:47:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stephane) From: Stephane Legrand MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14544.15643.354574.863691@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 02:47:07 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Redundant router X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, We have the following configuration : | | Internet connection | | | NIC ------------------------ | Router and firewall | | (FreeBSD box) | ------------------------ | NIC | NIC | NIC | | | | | | ------------------------ | Switch | ------------------------ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several FreeBSD servers Everything works ok but the drawback is that if the FreeBSD router has for instance a hardware problem, all the servers become unreachable. So, is there a way to have two redundant routers to avoid this drawback ? Or there is no solution except to have one spare freebsd box already configured and ready to replace the main router ? Thank you. Stephane Legrand. -- Stephane.Legrand@bigfoot.com FreeBSD Francophone : http://www.freebsd-fr.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message