There is a nice feature story in Linux Magazine called "Coping with Traffic" by Steve 
Suering.

It describes how to build LVS clusters.

The story starts with a short overview of the LVS architecture. 

It covers Features and Benifits.
        -high availability
        -scalability
        -servicablitity
        -load balancing

It also covers the routing implementations and different types of load balancing 
alogrithms used.
        LVS routing
                Nat 
                IP tunnel
                Direct Routing
        LVS load balancing alogrithms 
                Round-robin 
                Weighted Round-Robin
                Least-Connections
                Weighted Least Connections
                Destination Hashing ("director desides which server to use by looking 
up the destination IP adderess in a static hash table.")
                Soure Hashing ("director decides which server to use by looking up the 
source IP address in a static hash table.")

In the end of the artical is a Installation, Configuration and testing section.

The author states that for the installation of the LVS there are only 4 steps:
        patch the kernel
        install perl module
        installing admin. software for the LVS
        making the configuration file

-Ted Knab 
Breezy Network Solutions


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