Though you would still be susceptible to earthquakes, fires, whatnot, you can still have pretty good redundancy by putting each RaQ on it's own UPS and each on a different subnet or better yet, a separate network within your ISP/CoLo facility. Brandon Wheaton UNIX Systems Engineer ValiCert, Inc. 1215 Terra Bella Ave. Mountain View, CA 94043 650.567.5430 ---- Computers are useless; they can only provide answers. ~Pablo Picasso -----Original Message----- From: H.P. Stroebel [mailto:hpstr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 5:50 PM To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Failover and the Linux High Availabilty project Chip schrieb: > I looked into the redundant solution offered by Cobalt, but it apparently > involves having the two Raqs close enough to each other that a serial cable > can be run between them... which defeats my intended purpose of having the > redundant Raqs in different NOCs. aren`t they connected using the second network interface (which could be routed) ? really redundant servers in different nocs are a *really expensive* project, as you would have to use at least mirroring and monitoring, using a seperated dedicated line (as you might want redundancy for the network connection and a safe way to transmit data between the units). -- H. P. Ströbel PGP Digital Fingerprint : 58E0 6ECB 620A A689 E206 BCA8 300F BC45 6EEC F7C3 Yes, I do. But not Yahoo. _______________________________________________ cobalt-users mailing list cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To Subscribe or Unsubscribe, please go to: http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-users
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