> > Is this possible with Debian and if so, what application does this? > > Yes. www.linuxvirtualserver.org will do what you describes. The > kernel does the load balancing, and the tools are in Debian, though if > you compile your own kernel you may need to compile your own tools > (which is easy and works fine in Debian.)
Take a look at the keepalived package. It will save you a lot of time. http://www.keepalived.org/ http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/keepalived I used it with 2.6.8, even when there is a bug[1] that says that you cannot use the default kernel. Well, I did this on march and this bug is dated may. I haven't upgraded keepalived, though. And I shouldn't do it now :) Nelson.- [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305751