On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:37, Venkatesh K wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:00:47 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can Hearbeat work for remote squids? I'm researching for fail-over and > > high availablity for squid running in remote locations. > > > > eg: > > > > ---[center1]--interstate--[center2]--- > > > > center1 and center2 will have independent squid installations. (but each > > will use the other as sibling) > > > > most likely using transparent proxy/wccp/ bridging (which one is better) > > and I would like users connected to center1's squid be fail-overed to > > center2's squid in case center1 goes down. (otherwise, being a > > tranparent proxy, if center1(or 2)'s squid goes down, (for some reason) > > I-net access for that center will fail. > > > > AFAIK, Hearbeat uses serial cables for monitoring, (I may be wrong, the > > last time I read the documentation). > > > You can use heartbeat for monitoring and changeover. If you want an > easy way out, check out on www.ultramonkey.org. Serial port is not a > must. You can check heartbeat over ethernet also.
I'll check this monkey out. > > You need to have both servers in one single subnet for heartbeat to > work for you. One single subnet. Hmm.. I wonder if it can be done based on the config I drawn above. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz Neuromancer 11:09:18 up 1:47, 6 users, 0.51, 0.46, 0.54
