[lug] Setting up a linux box to act as a local director

[Alan Robertson]

Richard Fifarek wrote:
> 
>         Local director as in load balancing?  If so, look at LVS
> http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org


Good project.

If you want to make it highly-available (no single point of failure), they
recommend using heartbeat (from the linux-ha project). http://linux-ha.org/ 
You can also find LVS and heartbeat packaged together as UltraMonkey.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at unix.sh