Geographically distant load balancing (er, I mean failover)

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Dan Brown wrote:

>
>> Once you've detected failure, do you have a plan for moving
>> the IPs to the backup site?
>
> This is the thing I am unsure about.  If trying to do this on the same
> network, can I simply have a director assume the router IP and the block of
> IPs and have it be on it's merry way?

as long as the upstream part of the network knows how to 
route the packets to the new director and can change the 
routing in the expected timescale you want for failover

Joe
>

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