From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 3 07:18:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA29391 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 07:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (jeff@mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA29385 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 07:18:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jeff@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.6.12/8.6.10) id JAA09707; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 09:22:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 09:22:21 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeff.Lynch-JORSM.Internet" To: Richard Foulk cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID Controller Product In-Reply-To: <199610021810.IAA02791@pegasus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Richard Foulk wrote: > A quick alias addition could fix that. One box could check periodically > to see that another is still up, when it stops responding you take over > for its IP address too. > > > Richard > This looks like the closest thing to a perfect solution. After human intervention on the dead machine, you just delete the alias on the backup news server! Not sure, but you also might need to modify the arp tables on all the locally connected machines though for a smooth transition. ========================================================================= Jeffrey A. Lynch, President JORSM Internet email: jeff@jorsm.com Northwest Indiana's Full-Service Provider Voice: (219)322-2180 927 Sheffield Avenue, Dyer, IN 46311 Autoresponse: info@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com