Hi,
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Bradley McLean wrote:
> We're moving up from supporting one web site to two on our LVS load
> balancers.
>
> In our current configuration, we run one system online, and one as
> a standby backup. The master system runs a sync daemon to keep the
> backup updated with the status of the active connections.
>
> We'd like to be able to set things up so that each LVS acts as
> a master for one of the web sites, and as a backup for the other.
>
> All of this is working correctly in our test case, except that
> because the sync daemon seems to be global for the host (not
> for various address instances), and the sync daemon runs only
> in master or backup mode, you can't have the hosts keeping
> track of each other's connections.
>
> Would in be possible to run both a master and a backup sync
> daemon instance at the same time? I realize there are likely
> some issues to be worked out, but any obvious conceptual reasons
> why it just can't work, or makes no sense?
>
Yes, it can work out, two load balancers can be backup each other. We
are considering to add this flexible connection synchronization support
in the future 1.1.x versions.
Regards,
Wensong
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