[lvs-users] Internal address load balancing

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Sid Stuart wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are using Heartbeat/ldirectord to provide a load-balanced web service for
> an external address. We have configured ipvs to use masq as the translation
> mechanism and this is working well. One of the things (hacks?) we had to do
> was create a blank heartbeat service so an internal address would float
> between the two heartbeat servers to act as the default routing address for
> the web servers.

I haven't looked at the guts of heartbeat for a while, but 
moving an address from the active director to the backup 
director is a standard function.

Joe

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