[zebra 22919] Zebra, ospf, and application failover between datacenters

"Dawson, Mark" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.zebra
Message-ID <DB8AA994F7DCAA478C487B62AA1C816A2109293A@gsnmp02es.firmwide.corp.gs.com>
We've been forced to change our current setup of having one virtual IP for
an application fail over between two remote sites via VERITAS Cluster
Server, since the Networking team will no longer span subnets across
datacenters.  However, they state that they *will* fail over a small subnet
between sites (so that it is only at one datacenter at any time), and
suggested we advertise host routes from the hosts themselves that will
inject the new route during a failover scenario.  I asked what routing
protocols they'd allow on the network, and they suggested ospf.

I'd heard about "zebra" in the past and its ability to do ospf.  However,
I'm at a loss about how to configure it for such a setup.  

Is this something that anyone on this list has done before?  I'm under a
heavy time crunch to get it implemented (less than 2 weeks), so timely help
would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

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Mark E. Dawson, Jr. 	Goldman
Senior UNIX Systems Engineer 	Sachs

Goldman Sachs
Execution and Clearing, L.P.
440 S LaSalle St | Suite 1400 | Chicago, IL 60605
Tel: 312-362-3306 | Cell: 708-359-8764
Email: [email protected]
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