Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 07:28:06 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HA/Failover options Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011005072634.04919180@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <74546.1002265663@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <Your message of "Thu, 04 Oct 2001 22:12:10 -0400." <5.1.0.14.0.20011004220840.04858b48@192.168.0.12>
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At 09:07 AM 10/5/2001 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > What do you have behind the firewall ? Are all the boxes capable of any
> > sort of dynamic routing ? Using OSPF for example, you could have your 2
> > boxes advertising the default gateway, one with a more attractive cost
> that
> > the other. Even Win2K has OSPF capabilities. It might be an easier way
> to go.
>
>Where can I read more about this with respect to the "client" (sheltered
>hosts) and "server" (firewall hosts) configuration of such a network?
Dont know. Now that I think of it, apart from simple password issues, I
dont recall any of the routing books I have used put routing in the context
of security as opposed to merely discussing it from a functional point of view.
---Mike
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