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On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:14:42PM -0500, Brad Taylor wrote:
> I have two boxes I'd like to have setup this way:
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> 1st Server: Primary Squid and secondary LVS
> 2nd Server: Primary LVS and secondary Squid
>
>
> Traffic from client would be: Client---Squid---LVS---3 backend web
> servers.
>
> If the Squid server went down the primary LVS server would assume the
> role of both squid and the LVS. If the LVS Server went down the primary
> Squid server would assume the role of the LVS and the Squid server.
> Can this be done?
Yes it can be done, though it may not be desirable as Wensong suggests.
If your kernel is < 2.4.23 then you will need to patch it to use LVS.
You can manage the failover as you describe using heartbeat.
keepalived may also be able to do this, though I am not sure off hand.
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Horms
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