From: Tyler Hardison (thardisonmodbee.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 11:02:06 CDT

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> Right, so you don't just ping the active host, you test the
> application on that host. If you're doing failover on a
> database, for instance, you actually execute some SQL for
> the "aliveness" test. At least, that's how it worked on both
> sun and veritas clusters.
>

The problem with a transparent bridging firewall is that you *don't* ip
the interfaces. I have considered adding another sbus le to facilitate
an IP portion of the test.

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