ipfail status?

[Alan Robertson]

Tuomo Soini wrote:
> Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there anyone out there who is having troubles with ipfail that they 
>> haven't reported yet?
>>
>> I'd like to declare it part of the main function of the system 
>> starting with this next beta, but want feedback from users of it.
>>
>>     Comments?
>>
> 
> Yes. I wanted to use it to check for internet connectivity in HA firewall.
> 
> But that's not possible because when ipfail was used, master/slave 
> changed roles even when _both_ of them were not able to ping nexthop. 
> That is not necessary.
> 
> And when slave could ping nexthop and primary couldn't, they didn't 
> change roles.
> 
> Ipfail is not useable if peers don't communicate with each other about 
> that kind of situations.
> 
> Other problems is that ipfail doesn't use same logging facility as 
> heartbeat.

You mean it doesn't log to whatever logging facility that heartbeat logs to 
(as configured in ha.cf)?

I could extend the API to allow that.  It sounds like a useful thing to do.

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     Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh>

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