dead peer detection, ipvsadm

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

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

> I'm looking for dead peer detection for the real servers.

dead peer = realservers doing health checking on each other?

with LVS you usually do the health checking from the 
director.

> I already
> have ipvsadm setup using linux-ha on a cluster.  This part seems to work
> fine.  When I take one of the SMTP nodes offline (being a large incoming
> SMTP configuration) I would like it to be detected and no traffic to be
> routed there.  I have read various howto's on a variety of techniques
> (including the use of feedbackd).

knowing all the techniques now, what part of it doesn't work 
for you.

> This works great for balancing the connections.  But it seems to die
> miserably

I don't know what that means

> when I take one server down (as all of the connections seem to
> go there

where is there?

> because is has no active connections).

is this the slow start (thundering herd) problem?

Joe

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