[zebra 22921] Re: Zebra, ospf, and application failover between datacenters

Hi
Is the remote datacentre in another geographical location or ISP or
autonomous system?
Have you been advertising the same IP or network number from two such
different locations in the past?
or is it within all going to be within an IGP domain ?


Rgrds

On 7/13/06, Dawson, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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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