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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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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

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