[zebra 22922] Re: Zebra, ospf, and application failover between d atacenters

"Dawson, Mark" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.zebra
Message-ID <DB8AA994F7DCAA478C487B62AA1C816A21092943@gsnmp02es.firmwide.corp.gs.com>
This is a datacenter about 40 miles away within the same IGP.  

All I'm trying to accomplish is have a single service address bound to the
local loopback interface on both hosts in disparate datacenters, and have
ospf via zebra advertise one of the routes with a higher preference - such
that when one goes down, the other will take effect.

How do I do this within zebra?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gobbledegeek [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:21 AM
>To: Dawson, Mark
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [zebra 22919] 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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