On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 23:09 -0400, Greg Swallow wrote: > Anyway, to my question for y'all. I now have five boxes on this render > network; 192.168.1.0: > > firewall 192.168.1.101 1x PII550MHz (still down waiting for EPROM) > render 192.168.1.102 1xP42.53GHz (no more cluster, went to single > modeling workstation) > g5 192.168.1.103 2xG5 1.8GHz (had to get work done during the > arguing so I bought a PowerMac) > server1 192.168.1.104 2xPII300MHz (2xPII300MHz; 256mb; 16mb nVidia; 3 > NIC; 4x6 changer; 3, 1, and 40gb HDD) > server2 192.168.1.105 2xPII300MHz (2xPII300MHz; 256mb; 16mb nVidia; 3 > NIC; 4x6 changer; 3, 1, and 40gb HDD) > > Ended up getting out the only none UDMA drives I had; NEC 4x6 > CD-Changers. Hey FC3 Booted and installed from > changer slot 1; hurray! Each of the five machines have 10/100 NIC going > to the switch. server1 and server2 also have > two extra NIC bonded in a cross-over network between each other. I > would like to setup server1 with basic network and > Samba settings and duplicate/mirror the same on server2. Then modify > each to bond and have server2 mirror and take > over in the case of failure of server1. Anyone have a HowTo I could get > to? > > Thanks for your support. > > God Bless, > > GregS <>< > Greg, Take a look at http://www.linux-ha.org/ for the switch-over mechanisms, and http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ for file synchronization. Bob...