Re: [lvs-users] connect to the first real server only; connect to the second if the first failed

[Siim Põder <siim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Realservers are servers in the internet and their addresses will change 
> from time to time; client has to access them through the LVS address, 
> which will be permanent.
> 
> If you have an idea how heartbeat would help here, please clarify.

Your LVS will have permanent IP that you will direct to the real
servers. With heartbeat, you would manage that permanent IP as a
resource and only have it up on one of the realservers at a time (with
no load balancer).

Siim

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