[60327] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Server Redundancy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allan Liska)
Wed Aug 6 14:20:54 2003
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:18:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Allan Liska <allan@allan.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030806135846.Q88392@kod.inch.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Gerald wrote:
>
> vrrp on FreeBSD is supposed to be a free solution to allow machines to
> watch each other and take over IP addressing if connectivity is lost.
> Depending on how remote your IP blocks are and how much control you have
> over the routing equipment in between, your only choice may be a
> commercial solution.
>
Two things to keep in mind: VRRP is not a load balancing solution, it is a
failover solution and (AFAIK) VRRP only operates within-network.
allan
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