On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Tony Kapela wrote: > I'm in total agreement as to the untily and significant > headache-reduction that a *bsd os (with real interactive editor > makes -- Vi for IOS must be too challenging). However, I do see a sore > spot. > One area that I've not seen much attention paid to (yet?) is > failover. Don't assume that I'm advocating the use of a PIX > here, but has anyone yet successfully used ipf/pf to export and > then import the state tables on a backup host? In my experience, doing > that w/ PIXen has been quite simple.
It'd be an interesting challenge to get this working with ipf/pf. > Forget all the ARP/ifconfig/heartbeat fudgery that'd be required to > acheive failover on *bsd with ipf/pf -- just finding a simple way to > move said state table from host to host seems interesting and > challenging. ipf now has 'ipfs' which can dump and restore the current states table :-)