Joey L wrote at 2011-10-11 07:15 -0500: > I use one of the boxes as a secondary - if first box fails - it should > go to standby box. > I was looking for a hardware solution or if there is a service on the > internet that can redirect requests of service to one box if the other > box is down. I have not used it, but you might want to consider the vrrpd package in Debian. > I do not want to run another linux box - because that might go down as well. *Any* hardware you use might "go down", including the cable to the router managing the failover. And it would be quite possible for a Debian system to be more reliable than some random router, eg. a small solid-state system.
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