From owner-freebsd-security Fri Oct 5 4:28:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A546037B403 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 04:28:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.sentex.net (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f95BS8f86352; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 07:28:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011005072634.04919180@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 07:28:06 -0400 To: Sheldon Hearn From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: HA/Failover options Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <74546.1002265663@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message