On Tuesday 28 December 2004 14:29, Kelly Jeglum wrote: > 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. I'm afraid that's not possible if the box is also doing NAT. What you can do is use 2 boxes and only 1 of them is active. If it fails, the other takes over. Take a look at http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/. You need the loadbalancer part of it. Stef _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
