Server Redundancy

Gerald gcoon at inch.com
Wed Aug 6 18:36:39 UTC 2003


On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Allan Liska wrote:

> Two things to keep in mind: VRRP is not a load balancing solution, it is a
> failover solution

You are very correct sir. :-) The load balancing part from the same
project is:

http://www.bsdshell.net/hut_loadd.html

> and (AFAIK) VRRP only operates within-network.

I haven't seen anything that said one way or another on this part. I think
we would have to know more about the network that is considering deploying
this to know if the IP addressing could be re-routed to the backup
interface that comes up in the event of a failure.

G



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