Two LVS Masters with daemons?

[Wensong Zhang]

Hi,

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Bradley McLean wrote:

> We're moving up from supporting one web site to two on our LVS load
> balancers.
> 
> In our current configuration, we run one system online, and one as
> a standby backup.  The master system runs a sync daemon to keep the
> backup updated with the status of the active connections.
> 
> We'd like to be able to set things up so that each LVS acts as
> a master for one of the web sites, and as a backup for the other.
> 
> All of this is working correctly in our test case, except that
> because the sync daemon seems to be global for the host (not
> for various address instances), and the sync daemon runs only
> in master or backup mode, you can't have the hosts keeping
> track of each other's connections.
> 
> Would in be possible to run both a master and a backup sync
> daemon instance at the same time?  I realize there are likely
> some issues to be worked out, but any obvious conceptual reasons
> why it just can't work, or makes no sense?
> 

Yes, it can work out, two load balancers can be backup each other. We 
are considering to add this flexible connection synchronization support
in the future 1.1.x versions.

Regards,

Wensong