fail-over as opposed to round-robin

[malcolm]

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 ahall at madasafish.com wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Can the LVS provide a fail-over type of redundancy, as well as a 
>> round-robin type?
>>
>> That is, if I have two servers in my virtual "pool" can I direct all 
>> traffic to
>> just one server until it fails, and then all traffic will be directed 
>> to the
>> other server?
>
> the idea of LVS is to spread the load between hosts, so this won't 
> work. What you want is failover eg Linux-HA
>
> Joe
>
Or you could configure a fallback host in ldirectord or keepalived? if 
that's what you wanted.

Regards,
Malcolm.