dead peer detection, ipvsadm

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Gary W. Smith wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been looking around for a way to do dead peer

peer being the other director? (ipvsadm is only on the 
director)

> I have several incoming SMTP servers that I currently balance
> with ipvsadm

ipvsadm is the user space tool which sets up ip_vs. You're 
balancing with ip_vs (or LVS).

> using wlc.  Recently we had one die which caused some level
> of delay for those incoming requests.
>
> I was wondering if there are any recommended dead peer detection methods
> for this type of scenario.

if by dead peer you mean failed realserver, there's many 
chapters on it in the HOWTO. Have you looked there?

Joe

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