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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Brandon Friedman on November 21, 2000, 10:40:12 PM

Title: E-smith mirror server?
Post by: Brandon Friedman on November 21, 2000, 10:40:12 PM

Hi

This is a bit more of a general linux question but it does apply to E-smith.

How would you setup 2 identical E-smith servers with the same IP address for fault tolerance & load balancing?? Is it possible?

Regards
Brandon

Title: RE: E-smith mirror server?
Post by: jason on November 28, 2000, 04:11:31 AM

You cannot put two machines on the same tcp/ip network that have the same IP address. It doesnt matter if they are linux, NT, 95, etc.  You can do what they call a DNS round robin for web services. this is a change that you would make on you current name servers.

www.jason.com  192.168.1.1
www.jason.com  192.168.1.65

the dns server will bounce wetween the different servers for each request to that web site.  As for mirroring server that would be more on the line of clustering. that I do not know about.  

I hope this brings some light to the situation..