Geographically separated load balancers?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I am thinking of using LVS to set up a cluster with 2 machines
> each located in a different city for geographic redundancy.

do you want two realservers, each in a different place, or 
two directors each in a different place?

> Will LVS work correctly for load balancers on different
> subnets?

you'll have to arrange for the two different locations to 
accept packets for the VIP (or packets to the URL).

> Will the load balancers be able to communicate
> in order to detect failures and hand the workload to
> the other?

yes. you just have to set up the routing.

Joe

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