On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:49:26AM -0700, johan beisser wrote: >> I would like to reach a state, if possible, in which load balancing is >> performed, but at the same time, if one machine fails, the other will >> automatically take over. I believe this setup is also very useful when >> deploying updates. > > You're screwed on the load balancing without a 3rd system in the mix. > Preferably 4 systems, so you've got failover between the firewalls.
That's not the case anymore - see the IP BALANCING section in the carp(4) manpage. (there are a few caveats, first and formost being that your layer 2 network will have to cooperate)
