[TriLUG] BSD/Linux firewall with multiple ISP and failover?

[Matt Pusateri]

Greg,

A little more googling, and it appears carp was also ported to FreeBSD
in 2/05.  Since monowall is based on freebsd, and you already have
familiarity with that, you may be able to do it on FreeBSD instead of
OpenBSD.

Matt

On Fri, January 27, 2006 2:14 pm, Greg Brown wrote:
> Well, it's starting to look like an excellent opportunity to learn
> OpenBSD.
> Now if I could only get it to mount read-only from flash on a small,
> fanless
> four port box.  Mike Johnson, where are you?!?!? :)
>
> Greg
>
> On 1/27/06, David A. Cafaro <dac at trilug.org> wrote:
>>
>> I've got a friend Jason who does a lot of fail over firewall work
>> using
>> OpenBSD and carp/pf.  Check it out here:
>>
>> http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2005/view/e_sess/6475
>>
>> They have shown very good performance in a corporate environment.
>>
>> As for hardware, you might want to check out these people for the
>> machines to base your system off of:
>>
>> http://ironsystems.com/
>>
>> You should be able to get a couple of pretty beefy 1U systems to
>> build
>> up your redundant system with here. Take a look at the A-Class
>> iServers.
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 11:13 -0500, Greg Brown wrote:
>> > Hey all.  I think I finally hit a dead-end with M0n0wall.  My
>> outer
>> banks
>> > client now requires fail over from the DSL Internet connection to
>> a 2nd
>> ISP,
>> > probably a cable modem.  My research indicates that M0n0 doesn't
>> support
>> > this yet.
>> >
>> > What are my options here besides something like a Cisco 2621xm
>> (WAY too
>> > expensive for this client)?  Does anyone know of an inexpensive
>> appliance
>> > that they have tested for fail over Internet?  Or can a BSD/Linux
>> box be
>> > built for this purpose?
>> >
>> > Greg
>>
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