From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 12:43:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B9816A4DF for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:43:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bv@bilver.wjv.com) Received: from wjv.com (fl-65-40-24-38.sta.embarqhsd.net [65.40.24.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DAAF43D45 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:43:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bv@bilver.wjv.com) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (localhost.wjv.com [127.0.0.1]) by wjv.com (8.13.7/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k7IChroF014833 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:43:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bv@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bv@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.13.7/8.13.1/Submit) id k7IChmbD014832 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:43:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bv) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:43:48 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060818124348.GB14668@wjv.com> References: <44E0C450.8050602@fsn.hu> <200608180914.k7I9E47p004517@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608180914.k7I9E47p004517@lurza.secnetix.de> Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park ReplyTo: bv@wjv.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on bilver.wjv.com Subject: Re: Redundant/failover NFS servers - stale NFS file handle X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bv@wjv.com List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:43:58 -0000 While humming that old rock song Yackety Yacc - Dont Awk Back Oliver Fromme on Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:14 sang or SED something like this: > Attila Nagy wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > We use NetApp Filer clusters (NAS) for that purpose. > > > They aren't cheap, but they work very well. > > > > I don't like blackboxes with nice GUIs. :) > > But they do exactly what you need. I doubt that you can > build the same functionality with Linux. BTW, I never use > the GUI. I just log into them with ssh; works perfectly > fine. It's only seldomly required anyway, once the boxes > are set up and running. > BTW, as far as I know, they run a BSD-derived embedded OS > (with micro kernel?), so there's at least a little bit of > BSD in that "blackbox". ;-) > > Best regards > Oliver And one nice box is from GTA - Global Technology Associates. They are here in Orlando and I've watched them grow from nothing to being highly respected. They were the first NCSA certified firewall in software, and they are BSD derived. The GUI interface is more like a curses interface - the last time I saw one - so you can easily manipulate them in text mode remotely. As above, they aren't cheap but they work well. I had a pair that a customer from a long way away with a matched on in our colo used to update their servers remotely and securlty. It was a 3-step process of machines, with a Sun Netra at the first entry point, going to Mac G4's for the Web Objects for the the web apps, connected to a mutli-CPU Solaris machine for the Oracale database. The nice thing about their boxes, that some don't have is three NICs so you can have a DMZ in the middle and the private network is fully protected. I have no financial interest in them, but I have know Paul for ages. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com