From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 11:50: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from APastourelles-102-1-2-26.abo.wanadoo.fr (APastourelles-102-1-2-26.abo.wanadoo.fr [217.128.208.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95A137B409 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:49:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olive@deep-ocean.net) Received: by APastourelles-102-1-2-26.abo.wanadoo.fr (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 930AC25442; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:49:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:49:55 +0200 From: Olivier Cortes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FREEBSD MAIL TOASTER CLUSTER Message-ID: <20010723204955.B63865@APastourelles-102-1-2-26.abo.wa> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Cortes , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20010723114531.21106.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010723114531.21106.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>; from freefabri@yahoo.it on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:45:31PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386 up 4 days, 15:43 Organization: Deep-Ocean Network X-URL: http://www.deep-ocean.net/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:45:31PM +0200, Fabrizio Ravazzini wrote: > Hello all,I have to realize a Mail Server > (Pop3,Imap,WebMail) for about 4000 people. > I decided to use FreeBSD 4.3 with > Q-mail-Vpopmail-CourierIMAP-SQWebMail, but I have a > problem. > Is it possible with FreeBSD to make a "cluster" of two > machines (ix86) that when one goes down for some fault > the other takes care of the service so that Mail is > still available? i've got NO experience in clustering FreeBSD, but you could build a Third machine wich exports NFS for the two that will serve POP/WEB... the NFS server will serve only disk access, and would be not likely to have problems (it could be on a local net, insensible to probes and attacks). if someone gets the point of my idea, i will greatly appreciate comments on it because i'm in the way of building such a config (at home for now). in a global way, some tips about how to make more FreeBSD servers cooperate will be appreciated too. One (or more) URL would be cool. regards to the gurus :) (and others too) olive --- Olivier Cortes free software admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message