Thank you Jerome. Am looking at KeepAlived, UCARP and VRRP though not sure which way to go at the moment from a pro/cons perspective. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jérôme Benoit" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "Phil Daws" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 9 April, 2013 9:42:53 PM Subject: Re: Two HAProxy instances with a shared IP
On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 14:36:52 +0100 (BST) in <[email protected]>, Phil Daws Phil Daws <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, Hello, > am making my first foray into setting up a test lab to play around with > HAProxy. Ideally I am hoping to build an environment which consists of two > HAProxy nodes that share an IP address, and each node then offloads HTTP > connections to two backend web servers. Basically build a meshed architecture > for no single point of failure. A mesh for a shared IP ? How ? Encapsulating the IP datagram ? >It looks like the best route would be to use Wackamole and Spread for the >shared IP address. or keepalived or carp. > Am building on CentOS 6.4 so would be grateful for your thoughts on this > setup or whether there is a more appropriate one. If all works well then > hopefully can start to look at LB/HA for other services. The wackamole solution seem only valuable if you have more than one shared IP. ++. -- Jérôme Benoit aka fraggle La Météo du Net - http://grenouille.com OpenPGP Key ID : 9FE9161D Key fingerprint : 9CA4 0249 AF57 A35B 34B3 AC15 FAA0 CB50 9FE9 161D
