Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy

2000-02-02 Thread Benjamin Black
It's actually slightly more complicated than this as you must be able to specify *per IP* which MAC should be used, not simply per interface. That was the barrier which stopped my VRRP implementation as well. > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Joe Abley wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 01:19:53AM +

Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy

2000-01-29 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Joe Abley wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 01:19:53AM +, Tony Finch wrote: > > I'd be interested to know of a free implementation of VRRP for the BSD > > network stack. > > I started to look at this a while back, but started to flounder when > I looked for an existing in

Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy

2000-01-29 Thread Joe Abley
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 01:19:53AM +, Tony Finch wrote: > I'd be interested to know of a free implementation of VRRP for the BSD > network stack. I started to look at this a while back, but started to flounder when I looked for an existing interface to allow me to source frames on a local eth

Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy

2000-01-28 Thread Tony Finch
Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Once you tell an application to bind to a particular IP address >I'm pretty sure most don't have an option to bind another listen >socket. > >The customer can't fail over properly because even when the alias >for the box that dies comes up, thier daem

Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy

2000-01-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jack Rusher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000128 15:04] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > You have multiple customers on two boxes, each customer gets 2 > > IP address and you lolad balance between the two. > > Ah! I see your difficulty. I was thinking about availability; you > were thinking a

Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy

2000-01-28 Thread Jack Rusher
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > You have multiple customers on two boxes, each customer gets 2 > IP address and you lolad balance between the two. Ah! I see your difficulty. I was thinking about availability; you were thinking about load balancing. > Some customers may wish to run thier own sql s

Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy

2000-01-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jack Rusher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000128 07:42] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > Does anyone particularly like/hate this idea? Just wanted to > > share, and possibly get better suggestions. > > I usually do that like this: > > HostA -> Address1, Alias1 > HostB -> Address2 > > ...wher

Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy

2000-01-28 Thread Jack Rusher
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Does anyone particularly like/hate this idea? Just wanted to > share, and possibly get better suggestions. I usually do that like this: HostA -> Address1, Alias1 HostB -> Address2 ...where Host A and Host B talk to each other through the pair of "real" addresses, w

downed IP addresses/redundancy

2000-01-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
This is an idea I had to help people provide for reduntant servers. Many programs will bind to all interfaces to serve requests, however sometimes it's important that a service only appear on a single IP or interface. However you'd really like the server to be able to bind to 2 IP addresses, one