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Re: cluster on firewall?



On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:09:34AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have setup a firewall with 4 legs as follows:
>         * One leg goes to the router (cisco).
>         * Second leg goes to a switch connected to the internal network
>           (10.20...).
>         * The third and fourth legs are both for the dmz. one goes to a
>           switch with many dmz hosts connected to it, and the other goes
>           directly to an isolated dmz host (which the firewall acts as a
>           proxy-arp for it).
> 
> I've used woody+iptables+shorewall for this setting.
> 
> Now, since the firewall is the most critical host, I want to setup some
> kind of failsafe, so even if that host dies all the traffic will go
> through another host.
> 
> Since I don't even have an idea where to start, I'll appreciate any
> ideas/comments/pointers to documentations, etc...

check out the heartbeat package. It might be just the thing you are looking
for...

Kind regards,
	Kristof

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