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Re: Failover

> Right, so you don't just ping the active host, you test the
> application on that host.  If you're doing failover on a
> database, for instance, you actually execute some SQL for
> the "aliveness" test.  At least, that's how it worked on both
> sun and veritas clusters.
> 

The problem with a transparent bridging firewall is that you *don't* ip 
the interfaces. I have considered adding another sbus le to facilitate 
an IP portion of the test.

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