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> Hi all,
>
> My question is not LVS specific, but if someone can help, it would be
great
> :)
>
> I use at work a CheckPoint FireWall-1 cluster on 2 Solaris2.6/SPARC
hosts +
> 1 Management console, and the high availibility of both internal and
> external network interfaces is made by configuring on the 2 nodes the
same
> IP address/MAC address couple for the int/ext network interfaces. The
> cluster is in a "ACTIVE/PASSIVE" mode when the interfaces are
connected to
> hubs (it doesn't work on switches because of the identical MAC
adresses).
>
> The hearbeat between the 2 nodes is provided by a third, trusted,
network
> interface with a different IP address on each node.
>
> I don't know how CheckPoint made this, but when a node becomes
unavailable
> (external interface unplugged for example), the other node "take over"
> immediately, without interupting http,https sessions or vpn sessions !
>
> Because of the prohibitive cost of this solution, I have made some
searches
> on the web to find out how to do this with linux boxes and netfilter,
> without success :(
>
> So my question is: has someone already done this, and if yes, which
tools
> are needed ??
>
> Thx all,
>
> Lionel
>
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-abah-
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