Standby firewall

[SoulBlazer]

Well in a scenario where you are using a linux box BEFORE the firewall as 
well (eg server doing only NAT or a server connecting/bridging different 
networks) why not just use the built in linux "dead-gateway-detection" ?

Just be sure to set metric accordingly and failover should work properly.

My $0.02


On December 27, 2001 04:19 pm, Phil Oester wrote:
> Use heartbeat.  Use 1 ip for each box, and a third shared ip which is
> the actual firewall IP.
>
> http://linux-ha.org/download/
>
>
> Phil Oester
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org
> [mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Marcelo Moreira
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 1:16 PM
> To: netfilter@lists.samba.org
> Subject: Standby firewall
>
>
> Does anybody know how to set up a second firewall to act as a standby ?
> What I mean is if the primary one fails, the standby one will assume the
> traffic handling.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcelo Moreira

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