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/
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>
> 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
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> 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
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