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
>
>
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