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Solaris boxes support IRDP out of the box, as do Ciscos. I do not know what their failover time is by default, but I am sure that can addressed reasonably easily. -Deepak. On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 [email protected] wrote: > i've a situation where the network we're building is > very low-traffic, but requires maximum uptime. the > budget is for all components to be duplicated to > allow for failover. > > i've figured out various ways to do load-balancing and > failover at the router/nat level, and at L2, but have run > into a bit of a problem figuring how to use two solaris > boxes (firewalls) as gateways for all servers/clients > behind them in some kind of HA/failover configuration. > > i'd like to minimize the client/server side configuration > as much as possible (and the environment may include > NT, Macs, or other such ilk which will not easily supporting > a useful routing protocol), so something like installing gated > on all of the boxes, and implementing an ospf environment > is an unsavory proposition. > > i'd like something like HSRP, but for solaris/unix, and preferably > free. > > i'm aware of several vendor HA solutions, but they are mostly > overkill for our application. i've looked into IRDP (rfc1256), > but i cant find any information about vendor support. > > any pointers to relevant info would be appreciated, including > any general resources for HA/network redundancy/failover stuff > (preferably non-commercial). > > -foo > >
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