Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:13:23 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: Stephen Allen <p0036343@brookes.ac.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to provide fail-over capability for servers? Message-ID: <47271FE3.8050806@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <47264FD7.2040807@brookes.ac.uk> References: <47264FD7.2040807@brookes.ac.uk>
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> I will have 3 net-facing servers which must be available 24/7. I had > planned to have an additional box located in a different building on the > same site (in case of part power-outage) that will run VMware server and > host all the fail-over servers. Is it safe to assume that both boxes, albeit being in different buildings on the same site are located within the same logical network? If that is the case, you may want to see if CARP will do what you want: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/carp.html Steve
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