[c-nsp] IOS device failover

David J. Hughes bambi at Hughes.com.au
Fri Mar 4 17:26:06 EST 2005


This really sounds like a job for VRRP or CARP or some other similar 
host based failover protocol.


David
...

On 05/03/2005, at 2:06 AM, Tim Devries wrote:

>
> The problem is that this is a DB server and we want to avoid SQL 
> replication
> (and all the attendant issues this creates).  So therefore I don't 
> actually
> want to load balance, I just want the server to be available if the 
> other
> fails.  In CSS terms this is called a sorryserver, but a cursory 
> review of
> this document doesn't show any similar capability (that I could find).
>
> I'll keep reading.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim



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