Failover if internal NIC of active goes down ?

Alan Robertson alanr@suse.com
Fri, 02 Feb 2001 19:44:13 -0700


"Nicholas M. Kirsch" wrote:
> 
> wow, i don't say much on the list, but that is exactly what i have been
> looking for .. i tried to implement a similiar project, but without
> heartbeat; i eventually got lazy.. :)
> 
> your idea sounds really solid. could this functionality be integrated with
> heartbeat?


What he is proposing is better than building it into heartbeat.  Just become
a client of the heartbeat API. This is EXACTLY why I added the API.   I can
add a "contrib" directory for such tools, if they're licensed clearly as
open source (preferably as GPL/LGPL).

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@suse.com