Possible to trigger system events based on ip conflicts?

[Christopher Nehren]

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On 2005-03-26, Lefteris Tsintjelis scribbled these
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> Is it possible to trigger scripts/events based on IP address
> conflicts? Something that can be used as a backup solution,
> like a simple cluster failover, when one IP fails, the other
> takes over and when the first comes back on line the second
> one goes down (standby) and the fist one takes over again.
> What is the simplest solution to that?

You mean like CARP?

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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