(Simple?) High availability question

[Terry Tanski]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>    I am not looking for instructions, just pointers. :)
> 
>    I have two new servers coming in (identical) and I want to have the 
> two of them share the loads of mail/web/pgsql/bind duties. I've got a 
> dedicated firewall that SNAT's them already, and was hoping I could use 
> it to do my load balancing/failover.
> 
>    As I understand it, this is feasible as the firewall (or whatever 
> it's called in this role) keeps an eye on the two servers and while both 
> are up it splits incoming traffic between them. If/when one fails, all 
> traffic gets routed to the good server.
> 
>    So if there are any pointers, specially Debian-based how-tos, I would 
> be very happy! I'll be running either Debian Etch or Ubuntu Feisty 
> (leaning to the former, but worried about Debian-proper's future).

Have a look at Pen (http://siag.nu/pen/)

Terry

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