From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 25 20:24:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (kypo.alfred.cx [150.101.93.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A806B37B403 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:24:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew.reid@plug.cx) Received: from percible.alfred.cx (percible.alfred.cx [150.101.93.190]) by mail.plug.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5617F2B7E4; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:45:27 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mail Toaster CLUSTER From: Andrew Reid To: Fabrizio Ravazzini Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010725112323.20541.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010725112323.20541.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.11 (Beta Release) Date: 26 Jul 2001 09:21:44 +0930 Message-Id: <996105104.11859.83.camel@percible.alfred.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 On 25 Jul 2001 13:23:23 +0200, Fabrizio Ravazzini wrote: [ ... ] > Is it possible with FreeBSD to make a "cluster" of two > machines (ix86) that when one goes down for some fault > the other takes care of the service so that Mail is > still available? You'll need some load-balancing software with failover mechanisms to make that work. I believe balance (http://balance.sourceforge.net) has the required capabilities, as do many commercial routers etc. I've not heard much in the way of phyical clustering with FreeBSD. - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl ; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message