[60343] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Server Redundancy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Austad, Jay)
Wed Aug 6 18:20:15 2003
From: "Austad, Jay" <JAustad@temgweb.com>
To: 'John Kinsella' <jlk@thrashyour.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:19:15 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I've used them all fairly heavily, except the Foundry gear.
> Alteon's my
> personal fave. Biggest problem with the F5: hard drive. In my book,
> that means you instantly need two, doubling the price.
Same thing with the Cisco CSS. Even without a hard drive, you should have 2
of them anyway. How do you plan to do software upgrades or other certain
types of maintenance without an outage if you don't have a second one?
I've seen them flake out too, either by not passing traffic or by load
balancing getting messed up somehow. In most of these situations, a
failover to the standby unit fixed the problem (this was with F5 gear).
-jay
