RE: LVS Configuration

["Rogers, Paul" <Paul.Rogers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter

Many thanks for your reply.

>Please use "text-only" in your posts to mailing lists.  You'll get more
>responses that way.

Once again, I apologise for this.  Our firm uses Outlook/Exchange and no matter what I do (even selecting the plain text setting in OUtlook) the mail always goes out as html.  :-(

>Most users use either keepalived (http://www.keepalived.org) or
>heartbeat+ldirectord (http://www.linux-ha.org) for their LVS setup.  Both of
>these programs help automate the LVS setup quite a bit and are very good
>long-term solutions.

Malcom also suggested this.  I initiallly discounted them as I thought their main function was to provide failover and that using them would add a another level of complexity.  However it sounds as if the opposite is true, so I'll try one or the other out.

Once again many thanks

Paul

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