Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:06:05 +1000 From: Matthew Swinbourne <m.swinbourne@library.uq.edu.au> To: "'freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org> Subject: Cluster Software for HA/LB FreeBSD IPFilter Firewalls Message-ID: <2032706C9DA722478E91AB825B6695A95388@lib-mail.library.uq.edu.au>
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Hi All, I've been looking around for a HA/Load Balancing solution for my FreeBSD based ipfilter firewalls. I would like to have two (or more) physically separate servers performing filtering on multiple networks. All systems (nodes) in this cluster would have a common ipfilter rule set, and would be able to bring up and down vlan interfaces as the cluster state dictated. After a little net trawling I came across Andy Sporner's FreeBSD cluster software. (Thanks Andy if you're listening) I've had this running for a while now and it works almost perfectly. However, with one caveat, that is, it only appears to allow Active/Passive cluster setups. In the ultimate solution to my problem, the cluster would be Active/Active. Obviously for load, and bandwidth balancing reasons. The question therefore is, has anybody either grown their own solution to this problem, found other open source software to do so, or hacked up Andy Sporner's code to do so. The later is what I'm thinking of doing. Many thanks Matt Matthew Swinbourne Manager, Network Services University of Queensland Cybrary St Lucia, QLD 4072 AUSTRALIA m.swinbourne@library.uq.edu.au http://www.library.uq.edu.au
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