RE: Redundant FTP

I was planning on using a Foundry ServerIron for the fail over, but how
would I configure RedHat to use shared storage?

-Devon

-----Original Message-----
From: Ole Michaelsen [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:25 PM
To: Devon Harding - GTHLA
Cc: '[email protected]'
Subject: Re: Redundant FTP

> What is the best way to create a redundant ftp setup with dual Red Hat 8
> systems that synchronizes ftp data and authenticates against a radius
> server?

For a redunant setup you could place your ftp-data on shared storage,
for example on SAN - then put wuftpd under control of application
cluster software, running on both nodes.

Users connect to a service ip-address, which is on the active node. When
the node dies, the cluster software notices, and attaches the storage to
the standby-node, attaches the service ip-address, and (since wuftpd is
launched from inetd) lets users connect again.

I don't know of cluster software to Redhat Linux, but for Solaris, HPUX,
and AIX I would use Veritas Cluster Server from Veritas,
www.veritas.com.

By having shared storage you don't need to sync between the two
machines.

With regards to authentication against radius, then I guess you can make
PAM do that?

Sorry for being so unspecific. It sounds like an interesting project
you're doing, and I hope you'll share your experiences when you get
further.

Brgds

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Ole Michaelsen, Darmstadt, Germany
http://www.fys.ku.dk/~omic