Mailing List Archive: Partial failover.

Partial failover.

Aug 8, 2000, 4:35 PM

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Does the linux heartbeat project support the failover of an IP
address or network card? I'm trying to build redundant firewalls, and need
to know if heartbeat can handle such tasks.

Nicholas M. Kirsch <nkirsch@insynq.com>

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Partial failover. [ In reply to ]

alanr at suse

Aug 9, 2000, 7:32 PM

Post #2 of 2 (1645 views)

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"Nicholas M. Kirsch" wrote:
>
> Does the linux heartbeat project support the failover of an IP
> address or network card? I'm trying to build redundant firewalls, and need
> to know if heartbeat can handle such tasks.

Yes. Heartbeat supports failover of an IP address, but not failover of NICs.

-- Alan Robertson
alanr@suse.com