[TriLUG] Re: LVS / Piranha

[Jon Carnes]

UltraMonkey gets my thumbs up too! 

Jon Carnes

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 13:20, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> I've just done something similar where I work using LVS as packaged by 
> UltraMonkey, www.ultramonkey.org.  Once I figured out what they were 
> doing and how they were doing it, it was quite easy to set things up.  
> I'm very pleased with it.  The UltraMonkey packages provide LVS with 
> both load balancing and high-availability capabilities for both the load 
> directors and real servers.  Very nice.
> 
> --[Lance]
> 
> Ryan Wheaton wrote:
> 
> > Hey all.
> >
> > I'm about to start a project to configure my web environment using 4 
> > servers.  One is planned to be the firewall / load balancer, two will 
> > be apache frontends, and one will be the mySQL DB server.  I'd like to 
> > configure the firewall box to be a load balancer for the web traffic, 
> > but I can't quite decide how to go about it.  I've looked over some of 
> > the stuff at linuxvirtualserver.org, but I was planning on using 
> > RedHat, and it seems that RH does LVS different than the way that 
> > lvs.org does it.  Should I be using Piranha for what I want it to do?  
> > Or is LVS the 'real' way to go?  Or maybe I should just do DNS round 
> > robin and do my 'load balancing' that way?  Any pointers / links / 
> > howtos are much appreciated.
> >
> > -ryan
> >
> 
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