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CARP your way to high availability

Contributed by dhartmei on from the carp-redundancy dept.

Sunny Raspet writes on NewsForge: " You're putting out system management fires, with five SSH sessions open on your desktop. The mail server needs a restart after that kernel patch, so you su to root and type reboot. Just as the connection closes, your brain catches up with your fingertips. The mail server's still up -- the system you rebooted was the firewall at the site 200 miles away. The firewall on which 50 users rely. The firewall that refuses to reboot without a cold reset. What do you do?"

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    1. By robert (81.182.165.240) thuglife@bsd.hu on www.beastie.hu

      What do you do? PANIC!!!!!!!!!!

    2. By Anonymous Coward (213.118.72.99) on

      What you do? Blame it on the junior sysadmin!

  2. By Anonymous Coward (208.252.48.163) on

    I would buy new hardware that functions correctly.

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    1. By kris (66.236.9.30) on

      HAhahaaahaha

  3. By Sam (80.5.160.4) on

    > "What do you do?"
    CARP your pants?

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (67.70.164.193) on

      LOL!

    2. By kris (67.160.110.105) on

      Must ... not ... let ... immature side ... take ... over, ... failing. ... must ... laugh .... AHHHHHHHHHHhhhahahaha

  4. By Anonymous Coward (162.58.35.200) on

    It's good to see some press about it. Hopefully the implimentation makes its way into other systems. Maybe it'll help lead to some more funding for Theo. ;)

  5. By sponge daddy (66.91.201.48) on

    i feel very CARPed up

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