Tag Archives: failover

Cisco ASA BGP configuration

In this post we will examine the use of BGP in the Cisco ASA to allow failover between 2 ethernet style connections from the same ISP. There is no reason to doubt that this would not work with a PPPoE … Continue reading

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Cisco ASA Dual ISP setup

This post describes and tests some configurations to support multiple ISP or WAN connections on an ASA running FOS9. Im using an ASA 5506X for this demo and my software version does not use the bridge-groups out of the box … Continue reading

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FreeBSD & Carp – failover and load balancing

FreeBSD supports CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) and has done for many years now. We’ve been using it here at Gconnect as part of our ‘Mailout’ system with no issues at all and it’s served use well since FreeBSD version … Continue reading

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Perl DBI MySQL failover databases

Further to the last post on Eval, here is how we can try server A, then if it fails, use server B instead. The hub of the issue is ‘or die’ , ‘or warn’ and ‘or’. Here is my test … Continue reading

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