[lug] LVS / Piranha

[Ryan Wheaton]

Hey all.

I'm about to start a project to configure my web environment using 4 
servers.  One is planned to be the firewall / load balancer, two will 
be apache frontends, and one will be the mySQL DB server.  I'd like to 
configure the firewall box to be a load balancer for the web traffic, 
but I can't quite decide how to go about it.  I've looked over some of 
the stuff at linuxvirtualserver.org, but I was planning on using 
RedHat, and it seems that RH does LVS different than the way that 
lvs.org does it.  Should I be using Piranha for what I want it to do?  
Or is LVS the 'real' way to go?  Or maybe I should just do DNS round 
robin and do my 'load balancing' that way?  Any pointers / links / 
howtos are much appreciated.

-ryan