Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Keepalived

[Bruce S. <bw...@re...>]

Since DL is not losing any functionality, and only gaining a package,
I don't see any problem adding keepalived to DL.

I uploaded keepalived source to the FTP site (1.3 dir).
Feel free to commit any time.

 - BS


> Hi Bruce,
> Both of them are individual packages.
> Currently I have heartbeat and keepalived on my ISOs, since I wanted to switch configurations in a few seconds.
>
> The main reason for me to switch was that I now have more than 200 virtual IP addresses on my boxes and heartbeat (with ldirectord) needs up to 60 seconds on my box to bring the ips up/down in case of failovers.
>
> Greetings,
> Björn
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Bruce Smith [mailto:bw...@re...]
> Gesendet: Montag, 26. Oktober 2009 15:35
> An: dev...@li...
> Betreff: Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Keepalived
>
> Do we need to replace heartbeat with keepalived, or can they both be
> on the CD allowing individuals to choose between the two?
>
>  - BS
>
>
>> Hi DL-Developers,
>>
>>
>> I have recently switched from heartbeat to keepalived for my LVS-director
>> software on the latest DL.
>>
>>
>> From the homepage:
>>
>> What is Keepalived ?
>>
>> The main goal of the keepalived project is to add a strong & robust
>> keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project. This project is
>> written in C with multilayer TCP/IP stack checks. Keepalived implements a
>> framework based on three family checks : Layer3, Layer4 & Layer5/7. This
>> framework gives the daemon the ability of checking a LVS server pool states.
>> When one of the server of the LVS server pool is down, keepalived informs
>> the linux kernel via a setsockopt call to remove this server entrie from the
>> LVS topology. In addition keepalived implements an independent VRRPv2 stack
>> to handle director failover. So in short keepalived is a userspace daemon
>> for LVS cluster nodes healthchecks and LVS directors failover.
>>
>>
>>
>> IMHO: keepalived is the easier choice if one would only have some virtual ip
>> addresses with some realservers watched and there is no need to set up some
>> BIG cluster with harddisk failovers ore stonith-devices.
>>
>>
>>
>> Keepalived works great with conntrackd; conntrackd already provides a bunch
>> of sample-scripts in its /etc-directory to get things working.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you are interested in including keepalived in the DL distribution I could
>> check in the needed scripts.
>>
>>
>>
>> But one of you with FTP-Access would need to put
>> http://www.keepalived.org/software/keepalived-1.1.19.tar.gz into the src.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind regards,
>>
>> Björn Rudner
>> Systems Engineer
>
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