On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:37:50PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > I have two real servers behind a balancer. > > I would like the balancer to forward all requests to the first real > server only. > Requests to the second balancer should go only if the first real server > has failed. > > I thought of assigning them different weights (i.e. the first server > would get a weight of 999999999; the second server would get a weight of > 1 - but still, it will make one request go to the wrong real server > every now and then). > > Is it possible to set up the balancer so that it sends request to one > real server as failover _only_?
At this time this can't be done by LVS directly, but rather by a higher level tool such as ldirectord or keepalived. Such tools have run health checks and manipulate the LVS settings accordingly. _______________________________________________ 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
