Re: line switching

From: Adam Neat <adamneat@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:24:51 +1000 (EST)

The best way to do this is via routing at layer 3. BGP etc will do the
trick nicely.

But then again, i have seen / used squid boxes with scripts like failover
scripts, which change the default routing of the squid box dependant on
the result of icmp echo's

Adam

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Ronald Warner wrote:

> I need suggestions, i.e., help...
>
> I would like to configure a linuxbox to do the following:
> if our leased line (#1) is not running, squid switches to another
> line (#2).
> while using #2, squid (or something) also checks if the #1 is up.
> if up, squid returns to #1.
> if still down, squid continues to use #2.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
Received on Wed May 03 2000 - 01:28:26 MDT

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