Matt Gregory wrote:
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> Thirdly, they are my directors for my LVS configuration. Each of these
> two servers will run four LVS servers.
an LVS director forwards packets to several realservers delivering the same
service. It sounds like you have 4 servers delivering different services.
> One for Apache (so that I can add more apache virtual hosts and/or
> move the apache "realserver" off of the nameserver).
> One for my Zope/Apache workhorse server farm.
> One for my Bea Servers.
> One for my mail exchangers.
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> Quesion #1: can LVS be used effectively to produce failover from one
> data center to another?
The two machines may need to be on the same network, but I'm not sure.
> a) my production servers are all Linux machines, will I need to
> patch the kernel for the ARP problem
yes for LVS-DR
> c) is LVS_DR the way to go, or should I use NAT for my style of
> configuration?
either will do
Joe
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