Hi! thank you for response. I'm implementing failure detection and failure over using keepalived.
Leandro. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Graeme Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Leandro > > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 18:22 +0000, Leandro Sales wrote: >> I have a basic configuration of LVS-NAT pointing to two real-servers >> (A and B). In case of a failure in one of the real servers (let's say >> A), does LVS take care of detecting this failure and always redirect >> requests to real-server B? Or should I have to use keepalived to >> provide this function? > > LVS does not provide any health checking at all. There are many ways you > could do it, but the most popular are: > > ldirectord > keepalived > > They work in different ways to achieve the same end. Given the "basic" > nature of your setup, you could just as easily write your own scripts to > do this using a combination of (for example, for webservers) > shell/curl/ipvsadm or something similar. > > If I were you I'd stick with one of the above pair, though - as you gain > complexity you'll pay for rolling your own (in most cases) :-) > > Graeme > > > _______________________________________________ > Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: > http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ > > LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] > Send requests to [email protected] > or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users > -- Leandro Melo de Sales Pervasive and Embedded Computing Laboratory Master in Computer Science http://embedded.ufcg.edu.br/indexen.html PGP: 0xC7074792 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net "O guerreiro é forte em lealdade, intensidade, determinação, iniciativa, persistência, coragem e força de vontade. O guerreiro é leve em sua calma, autoconfiança e compaixão. O guerreiro é freqüentemente chamado para tomar a frente quando outros covardemente dão um passo atrás. Guerreiros existem nos campos de batalha e na vida cotidiana." http://www.leandrosales.com/ _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [email protected] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
