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Re: Geographically distant load balancing

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Geographically distant load balancing
From: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 02:33:25 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Dan Brown wrote:


I am looking at setting up a geographically separated set of directors to
perform failover with a pair of routers.

You seem to be worried about IP blocks. You haven't let us know how you're going to detect failure and do the failover.

When both directors are side by side, you assume that the networking won't fail. When the directors are geographically separate, are you failing out because of network failure (OK, if so how are you going to detect failure) or node failure (poor use of failover, since you can't assume the network between the two nodes is up).

Once you've detected failure, do you have a plan for moving the IPs to the backup site?

Joe

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