Re: [cobalt-users] Server Config????

[elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Paul Court so wrote:

} We have three cobalt raq3i's, and as I understand - one is doing the hard
} work and the other two are mirrored, to cover hardware failures! But they
} cannot be viewed by IP addresses, some sort or router/switch does the
} transfer when it looses a signal from the first server - and the second
} picks up the same IP address?

Hi Paul,

	There are a lot of nuances here and without knowing exactly
what your ISP is running to support this nobody is going to be able
to give you anything more than an educated guess.

	But, short of throwing load balancing into the mix which
would result in both servers being live except in the event of a
failure of one, or running off round-robin DNS (which does not
provide full redundancy) this is pretty much how it's done.
Redundancy means having something to fall back on in the event of a
failure. If the primary server fails and the second server picks up
the load in short order, you're covered.