Or you can use a vendor solution like Nortels NVG3050. Mind you, it can do more than just loadbalancing. Grtz, Roderick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Brimer" <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:34:34 PM (GMT+0100) Europe/Berlin Subject: Re: Failover IP router Quoting Steven Buehler <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I have been googleing for this, but can't seem to find the right answer. > What I am trying to do is to create a failover router on a redhat box. > 1. website.com will be on 2 servers > 2. website.com has one IP address > 3. redhat box router will have the 1 IP address for website.com on it. > 4. website.com server1 will be on 192.168.1.10 > 5. website.com server2 will be on 192.168.1.11 > 6. If website.com server1 fails, website.com server2 will take over. > > We are not worried about cookies that have been set on server1 to be moved > to server2. We are just worried about the second machine taking over. What > would be better is if it could be a load balancing setup so that it will use > both servers, but if one fails, people will not notice it because the other > server will then be taking all of the requests. > > I have googled for "Linux failover iptables router" and a few other > combinations of words, but what I keep finding is failover for the outbound > connections. Having 3 Nic cards 1 going to one ISP, 1 going to another ISP > and one going to the internal network. Maybe I am just using the wrong > wording. Any url links for instructions would be appreciated. > > Thank You > Steve I believe that you are looking for the load balancing portion of Red Hat Cluster Suite <http://www.redhat.com/cluster_suite/> Barry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
