[zebra 22920] Re: Zebra, ospf, and application failover between datacenters

On 12.07.2006 23:13 Dawson, Mark wrote

> 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.
> 

Have a look at Cisco.Com. Zebra/Quagga's OSPF config is more or less
identical to Cisco syntax,




Arnold