From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EG0j3-0006sj-Rs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:52:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8FKkDkk017155; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:46:13 GMT Received: from gimli.home.gaima.co.uk (cpc2-hudd1-6-0-cust92.hudd.cable.ntl.com [81.111.209.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8FKdDWd032578 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:39:14 GMT Received: (qmail 1949 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2005 21:42:53 +0100 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Sep 2005 21:42:53 +0100 From: Mike Williams To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Load Balancing / Redundant Network ? Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:42:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <001201c5b93f$bc6b6440$6401a8c0@cymeleons.de> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509152142.52798.mike@gaima.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 859bfde6-c5d0-48cd-8049-d3f01cc65dff X-Archives-Hash: 2df42ba94dd66a60e0ef5a1d8e52c685 On Thursday 15 September 2005 19:08, A. Khattri wrote: > Shame we dont have anything like CARP for Linux yet... (unless someone > knows better?). UCARP, but it's fundamentally flawed, as iptables has no method to keep state tables in sync between machines. Personally, I prefer to have iptables set up to allow traffic over connections that are already established. This way you can swap firewalls (and update arp), reboot them, etc, without interupting the connection. Far from perfect, but it works to a degree. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list