Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:33:13 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: Johann Kois <jkois@freebsd.org> Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20070430213313.GF1943@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <200704291815.42093.jkois@freebsd.org> References: <200704260810.l3Q8AUNj044403@repoman.freebsd.org> <200704291815.42093.jkois@freebsd.org>
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--jKBxcB1XkHIR0Eqt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 06:15:40PM +0200, Johann Kois wrote: > On Thursday 26 April 2007 10:10, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > trhodes 2007-04-26 08:10:29 UTC > > > > FreeBSD doc repository > > > > Modified files: > > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking > > chapter.sgml > > Log: > > Add some documentation on carp(4), provide an example configuration f= or > > fail over cases. > > > > Sponsored by: AiNET Corp. > > > > Revision Changes Path > > 1.390 +136 -0 =20 > > doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml >=20 > Hello, >=20 > just trying to translate this change but I am a little bit > confused. So I think this section needs a little bit of > rewording or clarification (at least for me) ... >=20 > >This example will provide fail over support > >for three hosts, both with unique <acronym>IP</acronym> > >addresses and provide the same web content. >=20 > Three or two hosts? >=20 Three, this was fixed yesterday. > >Prepare the third machine, provider.example.org, so that > >it may handle fail over from either host. This machine > >will require two carp devices, one to handle each of host. >=20 > Does this mean that I need three machines with an > identical configuration in this example? With 2 of them > (the content providers) always being online? And only > when one of them fails, the "backup server" > (provider.example.org) will take > over for one of them (so we still have 2 online > content providers)? And when the failed machine is > back online, it will take over again from > provider.example.org? >=20 Two always online, one standby. The backup server will take over when any one of the normal ones fails. From what I can see, the failed machine won't take the place of the backup again, once it's online. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --jKBxcB1XkHIR0Eqt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGNmCZbHYXjKDtmC0RAgSoAJ9kiOa0GSpQO9VuN74r7hHCfk4HAgCffglh xEFwbhlWe6GR1GFiw5yulxg= =PlTY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jKBxcB1XkHIR0Eqt--
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