I wasn't sure if it was BGP or if it was something else. Definetly between routers would be using BGP. But, I heard at an apache conference somebody was doing something where the machine would send a keepalive to the directly connected Cisco router, and if the router didn't receive the keepalive signal, BGP would re-route the traffic to the other host. Both hosts are on different ISP, but have the same IP address. Traffic is routed from the requester to the closest logical server. I think UltraDNS does this with their DNS servers as well.
Anyway, I don't know what the host uses to send the keepalive to the Cisco router, or even how to configure the BGP to make it work. I was wondering if somebody on the list has set up the same configuration on a couple of fault tolerant FreeBSD boxes. Sincerely, Rick Duvall ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rick Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:26 AM Subject: Re: BGP On Host > > (mirrored). If both hosts are up, the traffic is routed to the closes > > server to the person making the request. Otherwise, if one server is down, > > traffic is automatically re-routed to the other box. > > That is not what BGP is made for. It's an exterior routing protocol for > routes between AS. > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
