got rc2 on 2k3 up and running great i want to set up second unit that will
take over if first units goes down so the network will always be alive ?
i can link with no problem but if i shut down first unit i got nothing thanks in advance
Keep Alive
If I understand correctly you are running one IRCd on a win2k system and would like to have a secondary server on another physical machine take over in case the first goes down?
In *nix, this is accomplished via the mon+heartbeat+fake combo. Mon monitors network resrouces, heartbeat is like a ping and fake takes over an IP address. I dunno if windows has any of these utils, but the same philosophy would hold.
You need to make a script that runs on the 2nd server checking the 1st every couple seconds. If it detects the 1st server is down, it must then assume the IP of the server.
I would imagine an easier solution would be to NAT the 2 servers behind 1 public IP and simply start up the 2nd server if the 1st one fails rather than getting too involved with the shitiness of designing 'high availability' windows
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In *nix, this is accomplished via the mon+heartbeat+fake combo. Mon monitors network resrouces, heartbeat is like a ping and fake takes over an IP address. I dunno if windows has any of these utils, but the same philosophy would hold.
You need to make a script that runs on the 2nd server checking the 1st every couple seconds. If it detects the 1st server is down, it must then assume the IP of the server.
I would imagine an easier solution would be to NAT the 2 servers behind 1 public IP and simply start up the 2nd server if the 1st one fails rather than getting too involved with the shitiness of designing 'high availability' windows
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