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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 1996 09:22:21 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Jeff.Lynch-JORSM.Internet" <jeff@mercury.jorsm.com>
To:        Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RAID Controller Product
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.961003091438.9000A-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <199610021810.IAA02791@pegasus.com>

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On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Richard Foulk wrote:
> A quick alias addition could fix that.  One box could check periodically
> to see that another is still up,  when it stops responding you take over
> for its IP address too.
> 
> 
> Richard
> 

This looks like the closest thing to a perfect solution. After
human intervention on the dead machine, you just delete the
alias on the backup news server! Not sure, but you also might
need to modify the arp tables on all the locally connected machines
though for a smooth transition.

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