On Nov 4, 8:11am, Ken Bowley wrote: > Make a Linux machine automatically kick in as a failover machine for > http when the NT machine goes down. BTW, Red Hat also offers a high availability product that provides for a heterogeneous server environment (including NT). I have no idea if it meets all of your criteria however. See http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/haserver/features.html The price tag is incredibly reasonable once you consider that it includes a year of 24/7 support. Personally, I think that hacking up a Perl script would be more fun, but your management may take a different view of things... Kevin