Re: Exclusive IP Question

Thanks for the quick response. That's kind of what I was afraid of... 

Do you know of any products that could accomplish this?

- Ethan
btw: I enjoyed your book.


On Wednesday 06 June 2007 10:11:05 am Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
> I understand what you are looking to accomplish.  However, that is
> not possible with wackamole.  It would require some substantial
> algorithm changes in the way IP addresses are assigned to machines.
>
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Ethan Daugherty wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm fairly new to this list ( and wackamole in general ) so if this
> > has been
> > covered before please forgive me, I did look through the archives
> > and didn't
> > find anything on this topic.
> >
> > I'm curious if there is any way in wackamole to configure a group
> > of IP
> > addresses that should never exist on the same machine ( except
> > perhaps under
> > the circumstance of having no other more IP's in the group than
> > nodes to
> > assign them to )?
> >
> > For instance:
> > We have 100 Ip addresses assigned to 5 machines, those 100 IP's are
> > really 50
> > IP pairs that both provide a service and are load balanced
> > upstream. It would
> > be very helpful to let wackamole decide how to redistribute those
> > 100 IP's
> > between the 5 machines.
> >
> > IE:
> > Website A is load balanced between 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.11.
> > Website B is load balanced between 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.12.
> >
> > 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 could exist on the same machine without
> > problem, but
> > 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.11 shouldn't as that would put all the load for
> > that
> > particular site on a single machine.
> >
> > I hope that make some sense. If not please let me know and I'll try
> > to clarify
> > more. If this isn't possible in wackamole and you have experience
> > with some
> > other HA solution that would provide that type functionality please
> > let me
> > know.
> > --
> > Ethan Daugherty
> > Linux Systems Administrator
> > Dominion Enterprises
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> >
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Ethan Daugherty
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