From: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
To: Netfilter Development Mailinglist <netfilter-devel@lists.samba.org>,
Subject: [ANN] Discussion about a netfilter failover implementation
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:42:15 +0100

Hi!

As more and more people are interested in a netfilter failover system,
where all state information is replicated from one master to one or
multiple slaves, I've started a mailinglist about this topic.

In the mailinglist archives are copies of private e-mails where most of the 
past discussion happened (yes, i know... the important things are 
unfortunately in german, because I was discussing this with other german
people).

anyway, I've written a small concept on how i intend to implement this
(and how I started to implement it).

I suggest all people who are interested in this discussion to join this
list at http://lists.gnumonks.org/mailman/listinfo/netfilter-failover

Archives are at http://lists.gnumonks.org/pipermail/netfilter-failover

As the failover system is going to be a invasive change to the current
code, it goes far beyond the scope of the current netfilter connection
tracking / NAT. Most parts (new netlink family, failover daemons, ...)
are in no way relaated to the netfilter/iptables code at all, so I think
it's better to start the discussion on a seperate mailinglist.

-- 
Live long and prosper
- Harald Welte / laforge@gnumonks.org                http://www.gnumonks.org
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