Re: fail-over
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:43:46PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> I have two links to the net. A primary link which is quite reliable and a
> secondary link that is a stand-by.
>
> What's the best way of making the secondary take over?
>
> There's no need to routing protocols because we don't have routing protocols
> running, but I'd be happy to install something like Zebra if it can be
> configured to ping hosts on one link and switch to the other link if they
> stop responding.
>
> I could write a shell script to do some pings, but there's the risk that bugs
> in my script cause more problems than network outages... :(
You may want to take a look at the:
http://www.linux-vs.org/~julian/dgd-usage.txt
There are kernel patches for detecting dead gateways etc.
Regards,
--
Theodor Milkov Administrator IP Networks
Davidov Electric Ltd. Phone: +359 (2) 730158
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