[c-nsp] network design question

[Jorge Evangelista]

Also, If you want redundancy you could configure VRRPD for your
routers and servers.

http://siag.nu/pen/vrrpd-linux.shtml
http://www.estoile.com/links/vrrp.htm


On 9/7/06, Michael Nicks <mtnicks at kanren.net> wrote:
> Kind of off-topic, but for what it's worth, I've used the same setup
> when anycasting DNS service. However I found that the main fault
> resulting in service outages usually was not the data-link or network
> layer (either which would have caused a fail-over w/ ospf/bgp), however
> it was the application itself.
>
> That being said, if you opt for something like that, make sure you take
> a look at using a "watcher" script locally that checks the health of the
> service, and if the service check is negative, kill ospf/bgp.
>
> Best Regards,
> -Michael
>
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> Brian Turnbow wrote:
> > Another approach is to use ospf (or even bgp)and a loopback address on the server.
> > Take a look at zebra http://www.zebra.org/
> > You can tune it for failover or load balancing between the switches.
> >
> >  Brian
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