From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 24 19:19:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tinny.eis.net.au (tinny.eis.net.au [203.12.171.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A184D154C6 for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 19:19:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mynet@uq.net.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tinny.eis.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.3) id MAA09543; Tue, 25 May 1999 12:19:14 +1000 (EST) Received: from UNKNOWN(203.34.142.30), claiming to be "upstairs" via SMTP by tinny.eis.net.au, id smtpdhf9537; Tue May 25 12:19:12 1999 Message-ID: <017701bea655$215a4e70$1e8e22cb@upstairs> From: "Andrew" To: "Alex Heiphetz" Cc: References: <3.0.6.32.19990524185242.009583e0@cvzoom.net> Subject: Re: 100% dependability/failsafe/security/hardware Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:20:13 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One solution would be to use 2 machines as servers and have a 3rd machine acting as a firewall that forwards requests to the servers and spreads the load. There is software available that can tell if one machine is down and then just forwards the requests to the machine/s that are working. This setup should be great for your requirements as you have security and redundancy . The only problem I can see is what if the firewall dies. In that case I guess you could have another firewall machine that pings the first one and if it cant ping it then it changes IP's and becomes the firewall? Hope this helps Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Heiphetz To: Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 8:52 AM Subject: 100% dependability/failsafe/security/hardware > Hi: > > I have experience running FreeBSD servers (web and database/mySQL), > but now I'm looking at a project that requires 100% uptime and 100% > security (yea, I know, but we got to make everything possible). > Since this list is delivered to the best and the brightest in the > FreeBSD world, I decided to ask your thoughts on; > > 1. What RAID is fastest/most dependable/comes with monitoring software > for FreeBSD? > 2. Are there any benefits to using expensive firewall programs as > compared to ipfw? > 3. How to provide 100% failsafe system? > > Thanks, > > Regards, > A.Heiphetz > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message