Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Perhaps you missed that Nick was talking about a pair of carp'ed > firewalls. Failure of one machine means *no* downtime. Besides, > firewalls rarely need to store any valuable data, almost by definition. > I'm not saying that digging up parts and building a couple of machines out of old scrap that you could find in my attic (and you could find enough to build a server farm, I assure you) and making a whole farm of carp:ed firewalls will not do the trick. But from an enterprise point of view, spending a few hundred dollars extra to build machines that are very unlikely to go down in the first place - but if they do go down can be rebuilt with minimum effort - is usually going to be worthwhile. Carped or not.
Different story for home users, or someone that are hard up for cash of course. >> Now you're talking crazy. >> > > That happens rarely to Nick. ;-) > > I remember about one or two instances where he was actually proven > wrong, in a long time. > Perhaps your memory just isn't that great? j/k ;) Alec
