On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:47:38PM -0600, Dan Trainor wrote:
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> What I envision is a system which is completely redundant. I'm thinking
> about bringing in a pipe through a router, whch would provide the first
> level of failover to two different LVS directors. The directors would
> then be connected to a dedicated switch, which would in effect act as
> the primary network connection to my realservers. Each realserver would
> have a secondary NIC, as well, where Director 2 would play the exact
> same role as Director1 - but would just provide failover.
>
> What I'd like to know is, if I'm on the right track here. I'm new to
> load balancing and distribution in general, and can only hope that I
> have the right idea.
Yes, I think you are on the right track. If you want to go for
multiple NICs, then bonding is a good way to handle this. From there,
switch and uplink redundancy can be handled by the switches themselves,
and your local routing policy.
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Horms
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