Round robining using Heartbeat and Ldirectord

Peter Mueller pmueller@sidestep.com
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:44:38 -0800


Hi Louis,

> I have two machines running Redhat 8.0 and the newest 
> Heartbeat+ldirectord.  Everything is working great except I 
> can not round 
> robin between the two boxes.

ok.  what is the symptom that you are seeing that makes you think everything
is not working?

> Maybe I am missing something but what I would like is two 
> machines offering 
> smtp service on one ip and round robining between them for load 
> balancing.  Since I am not really putting a load on them at 
> all while I am 
> testing maybe it is working but I am not seeing it.  The 
							^^^^^^^^^^^

What does that mean?  If all traffic is going to one machine you probably
have the classic ARP problem.

> scheduler is set 
> to rr which to my mind when I telnet to port 25 first time I will get 
> machine A the next time machine B.
> 

Yep, that's what rr is supposed to do.

> What have I got wrong???

Please give us more information.  FYI, the linux-ha list is more oriented
(from what I've seen) towards heartbeat & high-availability issues.  The LVS
list is probably what you want.  URL -
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/mailing.html.

Hope that helps,

Peter