On Tuesday 07 October 2003 21:55, John Klingler wrote: > If anyone is interested, in my quest for a networking solution which > provides IP Failover on heterogenous redundant networks, I have listed > the solutions I found below. I would welcome comments from anyone who is > familiar with these. > > 1. faild - I have included a description below of a program daemon > which monitors the Ethernet connections and changes the routing > tables when a failure is detected. IP Failover is all this simple > program does. Being simple, however, makes it small and easy to port. > 2. High Availability Linux Project (HAL) (http://linux-ha.org/) has > code available for FreeBsd and Solaris (and probably reasonably > portably to other UNIX platforms. It supports virtual (redundant) > servers but could probably therefore be configured to support > redundant LANs. > 3. Advanced Network Services (ANS 2.3.x) for Linux* Operating > Systems. which is available from Intel on both PCs and UNIX OS's. > ANS provides IP Failover and much more, such as switch failover, > load leveling, etc. See: > > http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/onlineguide/PRO1000/DOCS/SERVE >R/index.htm. > > 4. Linux Virtual Server Project (LVS) - VRRPD, Virtual Router > Redundancy Protocol (http://off.net/~jme/vrrpd/) which also > provides IP Failover. It implements RFC2338 but is only available > on Linux but may be portable. As with HAL, it is probably > configureable to provide redundant LAN. If I was you, I should go for keepalived. This is part of LVS but you can also use it just for the ip Failover. Companies like IBM, RH, are using this so I think it can be trusted. http://freshmeat.net/projects/keepalived/ "In addition, it implements a VRRPv2 stack to handle director failover. " Stef -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.openprojects.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
