[21327] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: gateway failover.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Nov 11 15:48:10 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:01:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: spam@eek.org
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981110205948.Z6590@sfx.com>
Solaris boxes support IRDP out of the box, as do Ciscos.
I do not know what their failover time is by default, but I am sure that
can addressed reasonably easily.
-Deepak.
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 spam@eek.org wrote:
> i've a situation where the network we're building is
> very low-traffic, but requires maximum uptime. the
> budget is for all components to be duplicated to
> allow for failover.
>
> i've figured out various ways to do load-balancing and
> failover at the router/nat level, and at L2, but have run
> into a bit of a problem figuring how to use two solaris
> boxes (firewalls) as gateways for all servers/clients
> behind them in some kind of HA/failover configuration.
>
> i'd like to minimize the client/server side configuration
> as much as possible (and the environment may include
> NT, Macs, or other such ilk which will not easily supporting
> a useful routing protocol), so something like installing gated
> on all of the boxes, and implementing an ospf environment
> is an unsavory proposition.
>
> i'd like something like HSRP, but for solaris/unix, and preferably
> free.
>
> i'm aware of several vendor HA solutions, but they are mostly
> overkill for our application. i've looked into IRDP (rfc1256),
> but i cant find any information about vendor support.
>
> any pointers to relevant info would be appreciated, including
> any general resources for HA/network redundancy/failover stuff
> (preferably non-commercial).
>
> -foo
>
>
