[Linux-HA] Announce: load sharing clusters with iptables

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 5/29/07, Michael Schwartzkopff <misch at multinet.de> wrote:
> Eddie C schrieb:
> > I am sure FC5 is no long being maintained by RedHat. They have moved
> > on to developing FC6 and FC7. It seems hopeless for my current
> > install. (I told you I have bad luck.) Maybe some gentle prod-ing from
> > the linux community will help get this into FC6 and FC7. This seems
> > like a very ellegent way to solve a load balancing issue.
> >
> Indeed it is. But we should be careful with the wording. In my understanding
> "load balancing" includes a mechanism to measure the load on all nodes and
> distribute the load evenly between all nodes.
>
> iptables CLUSTERIP hash mechanism just distributes the load statically
> according
> to the chosen hash mechanism. So I think it is better to talk about load
> sharing.
>

have you got a diff of your changes?
is there a reason why we'd not include them in the normal version IPaddr2?