Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:06:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Michelle R. Sanchez, CNE" <msanchez@polyserve.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question for the freebsd community Message-ID: <200010260206.e9Q26Eh00591@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:20:23 PDT." <39F71657.8855C56D@polyserve.com>
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> we have had a lot of requests from customers wishing to make their
> firewalls highly available by clustering them together and putting a
> service monitor on the firewall port in case the firewall daemon should
> hang. this is probably not very likely but they would like to be able to
> do so in any case.
Just so that it's clear; in the FreeBSD context there's no "firewall
daemon" so there's nothing to hang. If you're talking about the NAT
daemon, then yes, adding monitoring to it would be a good idea.
--
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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