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On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 02:28:38PM -0400, Alan Murrell wrote:
> Hi Horms,
>
> --- Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > http://www.vergenet.net/linux/ldirectord/
>
> Ah, this may be good, since the Mandrake distribution
> (which I use) has a package called
> 'heartbeat-ldirectord'; I will check it out. Someone
> also pointed me in the direction of 'keepalived',
> whichi I may check out if 'ldirectord' does not do
> what i am asking of it :-)
>
> I went to the URL you gave me, and it determines
> whether or not a host is up by requesting a web page,
> so I infer from this that it is not necessary to have
> a serial connection between the hosts?
>
> I know this may seem obvious, but I just wanted to
> make sure, as there was no documentation on it.
>
> Thanks! I think I have pretty much all i need to get
> things going! :-)
Serial connections are often used between two Linux Directors,
but are not usually used between the Linux Directors
and the Real Servers. So in short, no, you don't need serial
for ldirectord (or keepalived IIRC).
--
Horms
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