[Asterisk-Users] Server auto Fallback

[Michiel van Baak]

On 16:11, Sat 29 Jan 05, joosfamily at speakeasy.net wrote:
> I am looking at setting up redundant servers for my client and I know the first step in creating an auto fall back would be to have the FQDN set up in such a way that it points to both of the server IP addresses, but, how can I make it so that the phones will (with minimal delay) authenticate with tha backup server in the event of a primary server failure?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 
Dan,

The senario you are discribing is very much like auto
failover nat firewalls.
That's why the first thing that comes to mind is OpenBSD's
CARP: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#CARP
I have * running on OpenBSD 3.6 without any problem.

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