On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Tony Kapela wrote:
I'm in total agreement as to the untily and significant headache-reduction that a *bsd os (with real interactive editor makes -- Vi for IOS must be too challenging). However, I do see a sore spot. One area that I've not seen much attention paid to (yet?) is failover. Don't assume that I'm advocating the use of a PIX here, but has anyone yet successfully used ipf/pf to export and then import the state tables on a backup host? In my experience, doing that w/ PIXen has been quite simple.
It'd be an interesting challenge to get this working with ipf/pf.
Forget all the ARP/ifconfig/heartbeat fudgery that'd be required to acheive failover on *bsd with ipf/pf -- just finding a simple way to move said state table from host to host seems interesting and challenging.
ipf now has 'ipfs' which can dump and restore the current states table :-)