On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, I wrote:
> [...]
> It's recently occurred to me that if all you need to migrate is an IP address
> (no daemons to stop or start, no databases to reconfigure) then a alternative
> approach can be to use a network level protocol such as VRRP (really for
> routers, but clients can play too). I've never tried this.
...and here's the example of using VRRP that I couldn't find 5 minuites
ago (for a load ballencer, as it happens, but the same should hold for a
pair of Shib servers):
http://siag.nu/pen/vrrpd-linux.shtml
Jon.
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Jon Warbrick
Information Systems Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge
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