On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:09:34AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > I have setup a firewall with 4 legs as follows: > * One leg goes to the router (cisco). > * Second leg goes to a switch connected to the internal network > (10.20...). > * The third and fourth legs are both for the dmz. one goes to a > switch with many dmz hosts connected to it, and the other goes > directly to an isolated dmz host (which the firewall acts as a > proxy-arp for it). > > I've used woody+iptables+shorewall for this setting. > > Now, since the firewall is the most critical host, I want to setup some > kind of failsafe, so even if that host dies all the traffic will go > through another host. > > Since I don't even have an idea where to start, I'll appreciate any > ideas/comments/pointers to documentations, etc...
check out the heartbeat package. It might be just the thing you are looking
for...
Kind regards,
Kristof
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