>Having multiple IPs bound to a NIC is not the way to provide
>fault-tolerance in the event of a line failure.
no, of course not, but pumping up a cisco or other router to 64 megs RAM to
hold the protocol and table, mastering BGP, all honorable activieities
could be put of while with his approach.
>Yes, a secondary MX off site is a good thing.
Even the "best" thing, vbg, but with redundant backbone connections in
place, redundant MX's on the same site go a long ways towards hardending
mail delivery. And he doesn't even need a full Imail server as the backup
MX, just an MTA configured as relay machine would do it.
Len
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