On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> On 03/13/2015 10:53 AM, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> >I am pretty sure I tested it somehow, however I don't use ipvsadm in daemon
> >mode as I think it is pretty useless without a manager.
>
> I use keepalived to set the rules and do health checking, but don't use
> keepalived for managing the state sync processes.
>
> When using keepalived for this, it will start and stop those on a reload,
> restart, failover etc, which means that part of the state sync info just
> gets lost. If I want to reconfigure my backup lvs director, shut down
> keepalived there, reconfigure it etc etc, the receiving sync thread is
> turned off, and I cannot properly fail over to it in order to work on the
> other end.
>
> By enabling the sync state processes in "both" mode, using the ipvsadm init
> script, results in a situation where the sending and receiving of
> information just always happens. Also, active/active is probably possible
> (don't use it now), where part of my IP addresses are on one director and
> part are on another.
>
> >Also your facts are
> >wrong, it is possible to get critical fixes into jessie. I will give it a
> >try.
>
> That would be awesome, thanks.
Would you mind to test the attached patch?
Thanks
Alex
diff -ruN /tmp/ipvsadm-1.26/debian/ipvsadm.init ipvsadm-1.26/debian/ipvsadm.init
--- /tmp/ipvsadm-1.26/debian/ipvsadm.init 2014-02-11 08:27:01.000000000
+0100
+++ ipvsadm-1.26/debian/ipvsadm.init 2015-03-13 13:06:27.641483006 +0100
@@ -29,16 +29,16 @@
case $DAEMON in
master|backup)
log_daemon_msg "Starting IPVS Connection Synchronization Daemon"
"$DAEMON"
- $IPVSADM --syncid $SYNCID --start-daemon $DAEMON --mcast-interface \
+ $IPVSADM --start-daemon $DAEMON --mcast-interface \
$IFACE --syncid $SYNCID || log_end_msg 1
log_end_msg 0
;;
both)
log_daemon_msg "Starting IPVS Connection Synchronization Daemon"
"master"
- $IPVSADM --syncid $SYNCID --start-daemon master --mcast-interface \
- $IFACE --syncid $SYNCID || FAILURE=1
+ $IPVSADM --start-daemon master --mcast-interface \
+ $IFACE --syncid $SYNCID || FAILURE=1
log_progress_msg "backup"
- $IPVSADM --syncid $SYNCID --start-daemon backup --mcast-interface \
+ $IPVSADM --start-daemon backup --mcast-interface \
$IFACE --syncid $SYNCID || FAILURE=1
if [ "$FAILURE" -eq 1 ]
then
