faild, failstat, ... Connection refused?

[Marc Mc Guinness]

Hello!

Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2002 16:17 schrieb Alan Robertson:
> Marc Mc Guinness wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > What I need is a failover system for my Squid-Proxy Server. No
> > loadbalancing. For that reason I read the documentation for
> > failover (http://failover.othello.ch/) and installed the
> > software together with the pth-libraries on 2 computers (Linux,
> > Kernel 2.4.10):
> >
> > Master: eth0 - 192.168.110.193
> > Secondary: eth0 - 192.168.110.242
> >
> > When I start the 'faild' and do a 'netstat -patune' it shows me
> > a listening faild running on port 1036 on the master machine.
> > When I try to do a 'failstat 192.168.110.193' from the
> > secondary pc it tells me:
> >
> > failstat.c:128(0x805ab98/909/2): cannot connect to remote
> > system: Connection refused (111)
> >
> > Now my questions:
> > 1.) Is there a better alternative for my needs?
>
> You could try heartbeat, at linux-ha.org/download/

Does heartbeat include mac and ip-address takeover?