Very true, but in my case, I've got cludtering and load balancing goung on
behind the firewall, so the BGP stuff would only come into effect with
connectivity failure, which would bugger up all the servers anyway
-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On Behalf Of Nick
Murtagh
Sent: 26 October 2006 17:10
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] redundant db driven web serving
Gary Pigott wrote:
> The main issues they raise are expensive hardware, ISP capabilities
> and getting your own IPs & ASs. We use Linux firewalls to do our BGP,
> so
Not to mention that you have to failover an entire AS, not just a single IP
address...
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