On Wed, May 25 2005 - 12:58, Jason Dixon wrote: > On May 25, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Joel CARNAT wrote: > > >I would like to use ifstated (OpenBSD 3.7/i386) in the > >http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#incoming case (except I'll use > >SMTP server, not HTTP) to modify the $web_servers macros when one of > >the > >server if detected to be down (no SMTP response, or no ping, whatever > >is > >"best"). > > > >I found no such example on google and don't know where to start... > > > >Has anyone already done such a thing ? > >Anyone can provide me with the pf.conf part and ifstated.conf ? > > > >I've already use "ftpsesame" and play with the pf tags but I don't get > >how to produce them with ifstated... > > If you want to monitor servers and remove them from availability, use > PF tables to store address lists. Then use your script (shell, perl, > etc) to monitor them and delete them from the table if they become > unavailable. When they come back to life, just add them to the table. >
well... I thought ifstated would do that automagically (and was meant to do such things). did I misunderstood it's use ? [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
