Anybody to help in configuring failover for a linux system... I tried heartbeat and keepalived but the code is very hard to understand... Or is there a step by step tutorial? Urgent!! anione to help?? Thnx very much

What kind of a failover system are you looking to set up, and for what services?

it jus two firewall providing redundancy which will suit my iptables rules.... which linux platform is most suitable?? I using redhat 9.0 currently

Two firewalls? Or two routers? Load balancing? Redundant for backup?

i wanted to use 2 fedora core system as firewall allowing and blocking certain services. For the firewall i have my ip tables rules up. The only problem now is i wanna set up redundancy for the 2 fedora core system. One as a main firewall and the other for backup perpose when the main firewall is down.

I trying to use keepalived for the redundancy part... Can advise me? Thnx Matir

anyone to help?

use rsync

http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

Rsync will only sysncronize your data's I guess. I think it will not help as a failover > shameervn
/ Rinish (rinishriju)

You may have to put these firewall configured boxes (A & B) behind a router/ipforwarding Linux box, so that you can provide a dhcp that will lease a single IP for both (A & B) ;-) Here, when 'A' receives an IP 'B' will be ideal and when 'A' goes down; 'B' will receive that IP address (for which you will wabt to set a cron that may restart your network service frequently)

I am sure that this is not the exact way ... but this can be used as a First AID though ;-)

The best way is to opt a load balancing device. I guess products like powerlink pro 100, link proof does these stuffs :-)

/ Rinish (rinishriju)