Re: Hot Standby

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Gene Black wrote:

> Since squid tends to become a single point of failure, what methods are
> commonly utilized to automatically deal with it if it crashes? I'm
> thinking of something along the lines of Cisco's Hot Standby Router
> Protocol or the such, though, to the best of my knowledge, there is no
> Linux support for such an item.

Right something I've been testing that's looking very promising is using
linux virtual servers, and some monitoring scripts - take a look at
http://www.LinuxVirtualServer.org/.

Michael.

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