Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 12:14:10 +0200 From: Sven Huster <shup@netzmarkt.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clustering FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000512121410.B21495@sirius.hq.netzmarkt.de> In-Reply-To: <391B0758.5F0D758C@wmptl.com>; from webmaster@wmptl.com on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 03:17:44PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005111327300.98375-100000@home.offwhite.net> <391B0758.5F0D758C@wmptl.com>
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On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 03:17:44PM -0400, 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). Hi there, can you please tell more about this or point me to some useful info? which hub does support this? is it possible to switch over by hand/script, if one maschine fails but the network still up? thanks sven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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