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On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 04:28:51PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm relatively new to the world of HA, and just joined this list today. I'd
> like to state up front that I'm rather confused about what is needed to run
> an
> HA LVS system. From what I've gathered so far, what I need is:
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> - ipvs kernel patch
> - mon/fping
> - Period.pm
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> OR Pirahna
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> OR Ultra Monkey.
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> Is this correct? Am I missing something?
>
> Are Pirahna and UM really the same thing just different (which is what I
> gathered from the list archive discussion)?
At this stage Piranha and Ultra Monkey have quite similar feature sets, and
utilise the same underlying technology and in some instances the same code
- both projects use the Linux Virtual Server. The main diferences being
that Piranha includes a GUI while Ultra Monkey has later revisions of the
Linux Virtual Server - that has fwmark support to simplify the
configuration of virtual services, and improvoved protection against DoS
attacks - and comprehensive online documentation. I prefer Ultra Monkey,
but I would as I wrote it.
> Is there more sw I need than what I listed above if I *don't* want to use
> either Pirahna or UM?
Yes, but not necessarily open source. You should take a look
at http://www.linux-ha.org/ and http://vergenet.net/linux/has/
for pointers and discussion of some of the alternatives.
> Thanks a lot.
>
> P.S. I'm trying to set up an HA-LVS environemt, and plan on documenting my
> efforts in HOWTO form using LyX and the linuxdoc format. If
> interested, I will gladly post my efforts here to be posted on the
> website.
You may want to look at some of the Ultra Monkey documentation,
http://ultramonkey.org/topologies/ and see if this is useful
to you.
--
Horms
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