Director questions

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 26 May 2006, John Oliver wrote:

> I'm using UltraMonkey for my directors.  heartbeatd is running between
> them, so that if one fails, the other should take over.
>
> 1) The UltraMonkey page says IPv4 forwarding must be enabled, but the
> LVS mini-HOWTO says it must be off for LVS-DR.

if you read around a bit (I hope) you'll find that it can be 
either. I just turn it off for security.

> 2) If the primary director fails and the secondary takes over, how is it
> supposed to get the ipvsadm stuff to forward traffic properly?  I can't
> run ipvsadm on the second director, since it doesn't have the
> interface(s) up.  Is there a way to make the backup director run a
> script if it goes live?

there is an up and an down script somewhere in any failover 
package. Not sure what it's called for heartbeat

Joe

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