Keepalived for Linux 1.1.13 review

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Keepalived for Linux project's goal is to add a strong & robust keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
File size: 217K
Developer: Alexandre Cassen
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Keepalived for Linux project's goal is to add a strong & robust keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project. This project is written in C with multilayer TCP/IP stack checks. Keepalived implements a framework based on three family checks : Layer3, Layer4 & Layer5/7.

This framework gives the daemon the ability of checking a LVS server pool states. When one of the server of the LVS server pool is down, keepalived informs the linux kernel via a setsockopt call to remove this server entrie from the LVS topology.

In addition keepalived implements an independent VRRPv2 stack to handle director failover. So in short keepalived is a userspace daemon for LVS cluster nodes healthchecks and LVS directors failover.

Why using Keepalived ?

If your are using a LVS director to loadbalance a server pool in a production environnement, you may want to have a robust solution for healthcheck & failover.

Requirements:
Linux Virtual Server 1.0.2

What's New in This Release:
The VRRP engine was extended to support floating priority.
Some issues were fixed.

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