[lvs-users] FW: Self Configuring High Availability LVS with Keepalived

[David Hinkle]

I'm trying to put together a self configuring high availability LVS.  Each of my units is a proxy server.  Each of them is identical, except a little configuration, and I intend them to come up, elect a director, and serve content.

I notice when I have a unit in BACKUP state, when I do "ipvsadm" I see all the lvs stuff is configured in the kernel.

Does this mean that the unit will try to do load balancing when a connection comes in instead of just ignoring it and allowing the proxy server's user space software to process it?

If so, Can I configure keepalived in such a way that the ipvsadm stuff isn't set up until a unit goes to MASTER?  And if so, will the connection state information successfully synchronize?

David