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List:       openbsd-pf
Subject:    Re: Active failover with local Squid and ftp-proxy.
From:       "Karl O. Pinc" <kop () meme ! com>
Date:       2006-06-21 15:42:24
Message-ID: 1150904544l.23128l.3l () mofo
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On 06/21/2006 06:45:48 AM, Camiel Dobbelaar wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > Too bad that pfsync (or something) can't sync anchors.  I imagine
> > there'd be some configuration involved, maybe to say
> > which anchors the current box will allow to be synced, but
> > that would take care of ftp-proxy failover.  It would also
> 
> No, that wouldn't be enough.  What would have to be synced is the
> state
> and buffers of all established TCP connections in the kernel _and_ the
> 
> internal state of the ftp-proxy.  I don't think that's feasible.

I sure didn't think that one through.

Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                  -- Robert A. Heinlein

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