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Old 11-23-2004, 03:38 PM  
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Originally posted by xenophobic
Here's an article about CARP (common address redundancy protocol) that can be used to do what you're talking about.

http://software.newsforge.com/softwa...&tid=91&tid=92

we were looking at the same setup a few months back.
Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff... except it looks more like a local solution.

While CARP is a wonderful piece of software and a worthy addition to any system administrator's arsenal, it's not a panacea. In some situations, you may be better off looking elsewhere. Fallover at different physical locations comes to mind immediately. CARP requires that the members of a group be on the same physical subnet. If you have systems spread across geographical distance -- or even on different subnets in the same datacenter -- it's probably best to look at other options for failover.

Both our hosts will be located at different geographical locations, in case there's a routing problem (West - East USA)
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