What do you mean by "reasonable"? Do you mean what you can expect right now at a hoster, or what you should aim for when designing a system? At 6/6/01, James DeMong wrote:

I am looking for a Rule of Thumb on failover for hosting, mostly tcp(webserver), some udp (audio/video streaming) stuff. My thought is that 5 seconds to failover when a network element(switch/router/load balancer/FW) fails is reasonable.

How many seconds is reasonable for fail over in such a situation?

Thanks in advance. __ James DeMong Network Design Specialist TELUS Advanced Communications Phone: (403) 503-3718 Email: James.DeMong@telus.com

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