High availability virtual ip

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

2009/6/16 Biran, Yahav (Yahav) <yahav.biran at gmail.com>:
> i have two linux machines, that are running on the same LAN.
> i would like to find a way to set HA IP.
> i was thinking on creating virtual ip that will ride on the exiting eth.
> lets say 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 and the VIP will be 172.16.4.1
> both will run an infinite loop of:while (ping 172.16.4.1) do ...
> once that the while is exiting in one of the hosts it will try to acquire
> the VIP.
> there is additional lock mechanism to implement so the two servers will not
> try to acquire the same VIP concurrently.
>
> i would like to know if there is any out of the box sofware that can do this
> task?

http://www.linux-ha.org/ ?


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