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

[Greg Brown]

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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