Re: How does LVS check server availability?

[Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 02:46:15PM +0000, Malcolm Turnbull wrote:
> Darek Milewski wrote:
> 
> >
> >Or perhaps I am missing something here. Maybe an addon program that ties 
> >into LVS to provide it with TCP based monitoring.

Yes. LVS does not know anything about the state of real servers.
In the same way that the kernel routing table does not know
anything about the availability of the next hop of a route.

> Ldirectord , Mon & Keepalived
> 
> I use ldirectord v1.62 for iis servers

What he said.

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Horms