Hi On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 20:36 -0700, Rt Ibmer wrote: > Hi - I just came across LVS and it looks like a great package. However I am a > total Linux newb (coming over from a decade+ on Windows) and I must admit > this is way way over my head so I'm trying to get my arms around it. A few > questions if you would be so kind:
OK, go on then :) > For reference I am using Fedora 8 core on i386. Great. It's all available to you as part of the distro. > 1) According to the LVS web site and changelog it looks like the latest > released LVS software is 3-4 years old. Am I reading this right? The project > seems very popular so I am thinking there may have been several updates since > 2004/2005? Am I missing something? You have to understand that there are two parts to LVS - the kernel modules (which actually do the work) and the userspace parts (which allow you to configure it). The kernel modules get updated as and when necessary - you'd have to look at the changelog at kernel.org to see when that's happened, but the most recent changeset was put into 2.6.24 in November 2007. > 2) I have absolutely no idea how to go about getting this installed and up > and running on my Linux box, really. This is despite having read through the > documentation. > > It looks like I am supposed to start by getting "The IP Virtual Server > Netfilter module for kernel 2.6". My my Linux box as root I did wget > http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/software/kernel-2.6/ipvsadm-1.24-6.src.rpm > to get this software. You already have the kernel modules - Fedora includes them. You need to install ipvsadm using Yum: yum install ipvsadm That gets you a basic set of tools with which you can make a lot of stuff happen. If you want high availability, health checking, monitoring and so on then you need some other tools to do that for you: keepalived ldirectord heartbeat to name but three. Graeme _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
