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Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover



On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 06:46:13PM +0200, Markus Oswald wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 16:41, Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:38:44PM +0200, S?bastien Lefebvre wrote:
> > > >
> > > You might want to use keepalived which includes a vrrp
> > > implementation.  I'm running it on the clusters I set up :
> > > http://keepalived.sourceforge.net/ I even use it on Netfilter
> > > firewalls without any trouble (without the LVS support)
> > 
> > Are there any good docs or howtos that describe how to do that?
> > Setting up two web servers with vrrp/keepalived should be easy, but
> > everything I looked at seemed intimately tied to LVS.
> 
> Did you take a look at the keepalived documentation?
> http://keepalived.sourceforge.net/documentation.html

Yes.

> All you have to do is patch your kernel with LVS or use the appropriate
> netfilter-ipvs-modules, compile and install keepalived and configure it
> according to the documentation and/or your special requirements.

Well there's the confusing part.  You had said:

  I even use it on Netfilter firewalls without any trouble (without
  the LVS support).

It's the 'without the LVS support' that caught my eye.

The docs didn't make it clear that I could do any of this without
LVS-related kernel patches.  Further backing that, you now say: 

  All you have to do is patch your kernel with LVS or use the
  appropriate netfilter-ipvs-modules, compile and install keepalived
  and configure it according to the documentation and/or your special
  requirements.

So I guess I've either misunderstood or asked the wrong question(s).
Because the documentation all seems to revolve around LVS
implementations.  It's not clear which pieces are optional--unless I'm
interpreting it incorrectly.

Jeremy
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