From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 24 2:58:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from relay.tecc.co.uk (luggage.tecc.co.uk [193.128.6.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5B0537B403 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 02:58:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@tecc.co.uk) Received: from southampton [195.217.37.155] by relay.tecc.co.uk with smtp (Exim 1.70 #1) id 15Oywt-0000OD-00; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:57:55 +0100 From: "Andy" To: "Lawrence Farr" , "'Tony Saign'" , Subject: RE: Redundant setup on a budget?? Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:57:55 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <000f01c11421$c7abdcd0$c806a8c0@lfarr> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Have it set to another IP, and if it can't ping the first one for 2 > minutes > or whatever time you fancy, do an ifconfig to take the main machines IP, > and restart > all your services. > > Or even easier echo the new IP to the end of rc.conf and reboot! /usr/ports/net/vrrpd why wait two minutes when it can be done in 2 seconds ;) Regards Andy > We are a VERY small outfit, (with limited funds as well) and I > would like to provide a somewhat fault tolerant setup, can > anyone offer some advice??? > > Currently have 1 FreeBSD 4.3 machine providing web, email, and > secondary DNS services. I have another identical 2 system ready > @ a moments notice to replace the primary in the event of a > hardware problem. I tested this out, I can simply dump the last > good backup on it, and to my surprise everything looks good! > > My question is this: > Given the fact that we have 2 systems available what would the > easiest way to accomplish an 'automated' rollover of services?? > Could the machines be somehow synchronized, similar to the > PDC/BDC NT model?? > > I can do this in a Windows NT (YUK!!!!!!) environment, but have > limited experience with BSD. I am in process of removing our NT > server!!!!! :) (happy happy joy joy!) > > Feel free to offer advice off-list, it would be GREATLY appreciated. > > THANK YOU in advance, > > -Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message