Mensaje citado por Kelly Jeglum <Jeglum@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > I'd like to setup a box with 2 NICs as a firewall which will also rate > limits outbound traffic. What happens when/if that box hangs or is > rebooted? > > I'd like a solution that when there is a failure, traffic can still go > through the box even though the firewall and rate limiting functions will no > longer be in effect. > Maybe it is more than what you need, but did you know Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol? http://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2338.txt There are several linux implementations. > I believe that this is "failing closed" but have yet to find an intuitive > definition - "closed" to traffic going through or (the opposite of an "open" > circuit) a "closed" circuit which would allow traffic? > ------------------------------------------------------------- La Tienda del Portal esta de fiesta! http://tienda.montevideo.com.uy ------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
