From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 11:13:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F6016A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ohwy.com (mail.ohwy.com [12.154.210.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024B743D1F for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:13:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rduvall@onlinehighways.net) Message-ID: <00f801c4168b$05aebf20$f901a8c0@ws21> From: "Rick Duvall" To: Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:13:02 -0800 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 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: BGP On Host X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:13:03 -0000 Has anybody heard of making a webserver redundant using BGP? That is, if I set up 2 machines on different ISP's, with exactly the same content on them (mirrored). If both hosts are up, the traffic is routed to the closes server to the person making the request. Otherwise, if one server is down, traffic is automatically re-routed to the other box. Sincerely, Rick Duvall Online Highways System Administrator Office: (541) 997-8401 x 111 Cell: (541) 999-2338