Hi Ingmar, It's nice to have options. Thank you for suggesting mpath-tools, which looks like it's worth of a close look.
Are you using this with AstLinux? Dan On 9/22/2010 12:30 PM, Ingmar Schraub wrote: > Hi Dan, > > probably a script is efficient enough in most cases. Just want to show > you something what else could be done: > > http://mpath-tools.optilian.org/ > > Regards, > > Ingmar > > On 09/22/2010 06:15 PM, Dan Ryson wrote: >> Hi James, >> >> Thanks for catching and correcting my misnomer. Indeed, we wouldn't be >> using the same IP address so it's just as you said: Two Internet circuits. >> >> I also appreciate the recipe for the script, which sounds like it's just >> the ticket. We'll explore this further... >> >> Cordially, >> >> Dan >> >> On 9/22/2010 11:16 AM, James Babiak wrote: >>> Dan, >>> >>> You're not really 'multi-homed', you just have two Internet circuits. If >>> one goes down, it's not like you can use the same IP address on the >>> other one. >>> >>> What you can do though is setup the second circuit as a fail-over if the >>> first one goes down. We do this and it works very well. We basically >>> have a script running in the background that monitors for connectivity >>> on the primary circuit. If it loses connectivity for so many seconds, it >>> will test to see if the secondary circuit is online. If it is, it >>> changes the default route to use the secondary. It continually monitors, >>> using a host route, to see if the primary circuit comes back, and if so >>> it changes the default route back over to it. >>> >>> Keep in mind that any external calls in progress when the primary goes >>> down would die. >>> >>> -James >>> >>> On 09/22/2010 10:42 AM, Dan Ryson wrote: >>>> I think this topic has already been discussed before on this list. >>>> However, Google and I can't seem to find the discussion thread. >>>> >>>> We have fixed IPs from both a cable and DSL provider. It it feasible to >>>> our multi-home AstLinux using a Soekris net5501? If so, how? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Dan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances >>>> and start using them to simplify application deployment and >>>> accelerate your shift to cloud computing. >>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Astlinux-users mailing list >>>> Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >>>> >>>> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >>>> pay...@krisk.org. >>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances >>> and start using them to simplify application deployment and >>> accelerate your shift to cloud computing. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Astlinux-users mailing list >>> Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >>> >>> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >>> pay...@krisk.org. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances >> and start using them to simplify application deployment and >> accelerate your shift to cloud computing. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Astlinux-users mailing list >> Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >> >> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >> pay...@krisk.org. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
