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diff --git a/network/keepalived/README b/network/keepalived/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5e28a766a071 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/keepalived/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +What is Keepalived ? + +The main goal of the keepalived project is to add a strong & robust +keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project. This project +is written in C with multilayer TCP/IP stack checks. Keepalived +implements a framework based on three family checks: Layer3, Layer4 +& Layer5/7. + +This framework gives the daemon the ability of checking a LVS server +pool states. When one of the server of the LVS server pool is down, +keepalived informs the linux kernel via a setsockopt call to remove +this server entrie from the LVS topology. In addition keepalived +implements an independent VRRPv2 stack to handle director failover. +So in short keepalived is a userspace daemon for LVS cluster nodes +healthchecks and LVS directors failover. |