gateway failover.

Wed Nov 11 20:01:23 UTC 1998

Solaris boxes support IRDP out of the box, as do Ciscos.

I do not know what their failover time is by default, but I am sure that 
can addressed reasonably easily.

-Deepak.

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 spam at eek.org wrote:

> i've a situation where the network we're building is 
> very low-traffic, but requires maximum uptime. the 
> budget is for all components to be duplicated to
> allow for failover. 
> 
> i've figured out various ways to do load-balancing and 
> failover at the router/nat level, and at L2, but have run 
> into a bit of a problem figuring how to use two solaris 
> boxes (firewalls) as gateways for all servers/clients 
> behind them in some kind of HA/failover configuration. 
> 
> i'd like to minimize the client/server side configuration 
> as much as possible (and the environment may include 
> NT, Macs, or other such ilk which will not easily supporting 
> a useful routing protocol), so something like installing gated 
> on all of the boxes, and implementing an ospf environment
> is an unsavory proposition. 
> 
> i'd like something like HSRP, but for solaris/unix, and preferably
> free.
> 
> i'm aware of several vendor HA solutions, but they are mostly 
> overkill for our application. i've looked into IRDP (rfc1256), 
> but i cant find any information about vendor support.
> 
> any pointers to relevant info would be appreciated, including
> any general resources for HA/network redundancy/failover stuff
> (preferably non-commercial). 
> 
> -foo
> 
> 