[zebra 22923] Re: Zebra, ospf, and application failover between d atacenters

On 13.07.2006 16:19 Dawson, Mark wrote

> 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.
> 

Looks like you want to do something like anycast, don't you? Make sure
to inject the route from the backup server with higher metric and you
should be done ...



Arnold