Hi all,
this sounds as this is a "reinvention" of heartbeat available from
linux-ha.org
kind regards
Juergen Hoffmann
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From: JuanE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: vqalive - comments?
> I'm not much a C programer but it looks pretty cool! I'll definitely give
it
> a test drive soon.
> Thanks,
> JuanE
>
> > We have a new GPL program and would like comments from anyone.
> >
> > http://www.inter7.com/vqalive/
> >
> >
> > vqalive
> >
> > vqalive negotiates a shared ip between two machines. This provides
> > for hot stand by failover to a redundant machine. Thus increasing
> > overall uptime.
> >
> > Open Source Certified
> >
> > vqalive
> >
> > Features
> > Negotiates a shared IP between two machines.
> > runs as a daemon.
> > signal interface to drop shared ip.
> > written in C.
> > small and efficent.
> >
> >
> > Two identical email servers can be setup to share a private NFS
> > partion off a raid array. Each server provides the exact same
> > services as the other machine. Each machine has its own IP. All
> > clients are told to connect a third IP for services. One of the
> > servers will start out with the shared IP. If this server ever
> > dies and goes offline, the second server, using vqalive, will
> > detect the failure and assign the IP to itself. As a hot swap
> > over. Clients can then continue to get services. And the IP
> > address is switched transparently.
> >
> > Ken Jones
> >
>
>
