[60332] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Server Redundancy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerald)
Wed Aug 6 14:40:36 2003
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:36:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gerald <gcoon@inch.com>
To: Allan Liska <allan@allan.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308061416200.23657-100000@ns1.vbind.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Allan Liska wrote:
> Two things to keep in mind: VRRP is not a load balancing solution, it is a
> failover solution
You are very correct sir. :-) The load balancing part from the same
project is:
http://www.bsdshell.net/hut_loadd.html
> and (AFAIK) VRRP only operates within-network.
I haven't seen anything that said one way or another on this part. I think
we would have to know more about the network that is considering deploying
this to know if the IP addressing could be re-routed to the backup
interface that comes up in the event of a failure.
G
