Re: How does availability work..

[Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:17:36PM -0600, Ryan McCain wrote:
> I am familiar w/ heartbeat, keepalived, etc.  However, if these tools
> are implemented alongside LVS, how does LVS determine realserver to send
> packets to?
> 
> I'm trying to determine if I need to install keepalived along with the
> native functionality of LVS.

Tools like keepalived probe the health of the real servers
and add and remove them from LVS's configuration accordingly.
LVS itself does not do this.

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Horms