Alex,

How does a forking proxy help when dealing with virtual IP addresses? Perhaps I don't quite understand what you mean by a "forking proxy" but it appears you'd have one "main" proxy that basically hands off requests to others? Right?

If so, what happens if the "main" proxy crashes? All customers experience a service outage.

LVS is a very valid approach to achieving 99.999% uptime from a service perspective.

Regards,
Paul

On Apr 10, 2005 10:49 AM, Alex Vishnev <avishnev@optonline.net> wrote:

Hello All,

 

I wanted to join this thread as it seems as a very interesting discussion. I have been monitoring for some time now. I am not quite sure if I this has been discussed before, but has anyone considered forking proxy instead of load balancer? One thing I am not very clear on, is what problem you are trying to resolve. Are you concerned that if sipua registers with sip-01/mysql-01 then LVS sending the next request to sip-02/mysql-02 without the second knowing what to do? Sorry, if this has been already discussed.

 

Alex