failover without downtime?

Stig Brautaset <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.keepalived.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've inherited a live environment with a keepalived setup.
Unfortunately the corresponding dev/test environments
doesn't have keepalived, presumably for lack of IPs. (Noone
still here _knows_, but that fits the symptoms.)

We would like to fail over to the BACKUP, but we don't want
to take the primary box offline -- as we don't want to fail
the connections already in progress.

Can I just kill the keepalived daemon running as MASTER?
Will that that initiate a failover to the BACKUP without
downtime for the traffic? I.e. new connections go to BACKUP
but MASTER's old traffic is left to finish?

Stig


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