From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 24 2:20:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from paperboy.sixforty.co.uk (paperboy.sixforty.co.uk [195.10.242.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320BB37B40E for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 02:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-isp@sixforty.co.uk) Received: (from root@localhost) by paperboy.sixforty.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f6O9K3Z28464; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:20:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd-isp@sixforty.co.uk) Delivered-To: tony@saignon.net Received: from lfarr (daisy.int.epcdirect.co.uk [192.168.6.200]) by paperboy.sixforty.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1av) with ESMTP id f6O9Jve28424; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:19:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd-isp@sixforty.co.uk) From: "Lawrence Farr" To: "'Tony Saign'" , Subject: RE: Redundant setup on a budget?? Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:19:45 +0100 Message-ID: <000f01c11421$c7abdcd0$c806a8c0@lfarr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 In-Reply-To: <000101c113e8$c1f9f990$0600a8c0@tsaignmobl> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Have it set to another IP, and if it can't ping the first one for 2 minutes or whatever time you fancy, do an ifconfig to take the main machines IP, and restart all your services. Or even easier echo the new IP to the end of rc.conf and reboot! -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Tony Saign Sent: 24 July 2001 03:32 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Redundant setup on a budget?? We are a VERY small outfit, (with limited funds as well) and I would like to provide a somewhat fault tolerant setup, can anyone offer some advice??? Currently have 1 FreeBSD 4.3 machine providing web, email, and secondary DNS services. I have another identical 2 system ready @ a moments notice to replace the primary in the event of a hardware problem. I tested this out, I can simply dump the last good backup on it, and to my surprise everything looks good! My question is this: Given the fact that we have 2 systems available what would the easiest way to accomplish an 'automated' rollover of services?? Could the machines be somehow synchronized, similar to the PDC/BDC NT model?? I can do this in a Windows NT (YUK!!!!!!) environment, but have limited experience with BSD. I am in process of removing our NT server!!!!! :) (happy happy joy joy!) Feel free to offer advice off-list, it would be GREATLY appreciated. THANK YOU in advance, -Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message