[ULTRAMONKEY-USERS] routing

[Mattias Andersson]

Hi Ludwig,

What you want to do is to handle the gateway IP address with heartbeat, 
just like you do with the VIP.
But the gateway IP address is probaly on an other interface then the VIP...

Regards
/Mattias

Ludwig Ruderstaller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can nobody help me with this ?
>
> any help would be much appreciated !
>
> TIA
> Ludwig
>
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> Subject: [ULTRAMONKEY-USERS] routing
> Date: Monday, 22. October 2007
> From: Ludwig Ruderstaller <l.ruderstaller at bestheads.com>
> To: ultramonkey-users at vergenet.net
>
> Hi List,
>
> After playing around the whole weekend i have my setup running. I am two 
> little problems away from beeing perfectly happy with it.
>
> my ldirectord.cf looks like:
>
> virtual=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80
>         real=10.1.1.203:80 masq
>         real=10.1.1.204:80 masq
>         real=10.1.1.205:80 masq
>         service=http
>         request="ldirector.html"
>         receive="Test Page"
>         scheduler=rr
>         protocol=tcp
>         checktype=negotiate
>
> so the realservers have set the default gateway to the director.
>
> But i have 2 directors in a hot standby configuration. If the master is 
> failing the slave takes over automaticly, but the slave has a different 
> internal ip then the master, and so the whole setup fails. 
>
> Is there are a way to set the gateway "dynamicly" on the realservers ?
>
> I use Gentoo and set the ip of the interface on the director to "none" and 
> added his default route. 
> eg.
> config_eth0=("none")
> routes_eth0=("default via [gateway_ip]")
>
> the only problem is, gentoo doesnt set the route if you dont assign a ip 
> address.
> after the master fails or get disabled the slave director kicks in and didnt 
> have a default route. is it possible to "extend" the takeover process to 
> execute a bash file or similar ?
>
> TIA
> Ludwig
>
>
>