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

[Greg Brown]

That's what I'm hoping.  There is a lot of chatter on the M0no lists about
supporting failover and it appears I do have a bit of time before I have to
do something.  But just in case I'll think I'll be throwing OpenBSD on a
machine this weekend..

Greg

On 1/27/06, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
>
> 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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