Piranha not doing "gratuitous lvs arps" on Failover AND is Piranha the right Solution for me ?

Hallo Piranha-list,

I have two Questions - I hope Somebody can Help me :)

Configuration :

Two LB (one primary and one secondary) : Red Hat Linux 7.2, Kernel 2.4.18
	(both Compaq DL360 G2 - bcm5700 driver downloaded from Compaq)

ipvsadm-1.20-7 (from http://www.academy.rpi.edu/~yua/open_source/piranha/)
piranha-0.7.0-3 (from ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/piranha/7.2/piranha/)

LVS-NAT is used.

while testing 2 Real Server running NT 4.0 (both also Compaq DL360 G2)

lvs.cf is included at the end of this mail.


Problem :
With the Primary LB everything is Working - so far so good.

My problem is on Failover (if a Network connection is removed on Primary
LB). When then the Backup LB starts it says that it makes "gratuitous lvs
arps" - but nothing happens on the real Server or on the Router on the other
side :(
A "tcpdump -i eth0 arp" does not show anything of that kind !?

What could be wrong ?


How can I activate Debugging ?

i tried to set the -v on pulse start but that only shows the Heartbeat.
And "debug_level = MAX" does not do anything

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And the Second Question. Is Piranha the right Solution for me ?

I am trying to get a failure secure System running but have found that it is
not always taking over or not shutting down services on the Failed LB.

Further infos to my configurtaion : The LB's each have 2 NIC's which each
are connected to a different Switch on each side - that means i have 4
Switches. ETH0 is on the External side and ETH1 on the Internal. The Real
Servers are each connected to one of these Switches on the Internal side.

Following is in my opinion not working :
When i remove the connection on ETH0 on the Primary LB the second LB takes
over - which is good. But the Primary LB stay up so that the VIP now is on
ETH1 of BOTH LB's :( That should give some problems

When i remove the connection on ETH1 on the Primary LB the second LB DOES
NOT takes over because Heartbeat is still working. And the Primary LB can
not reach the Real Severs :( So nothing is working anylonger.

What I need is some kind of Dual Heartbeat and/or some intelligence that
tests which LB can reach the most Real Servers or somthing like that.

I am Sure sombody needed/did this before - but what did you use ?

!!! Please do not suggest that i buy RedHat HA 2.1 because I have to get it
running till Monday Evening :) !!!

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Here is my lvs.cf :

serial_no = 143
primary = 10.49.140.236
primary_private = 10.49.143.1
service = lvs
backup_active = 1
backup = 10.49.140.237
backup_private = 10.49.143.2
heartbeat = 1
heartbeat_port = 539
keepalive = 6
deadtime = 18
network = nat
nat_router = 10.49.143.3 eth1:0
nat_nmask = 255.255.255.0
reservation_conflict_action = preempt
debug_level = NONE
virtual TEST {
     active = 1
     address = 10.49.140.238 eth0:1
     vip_nmask = 255.255.255.0
     fwmark = 3730
     port = 3730
     persistent = 100
     load_monitor = none
     scheduler = rr
     protocol = tcp
     timeout = 6
     reentry = 15
     quiesce_server = 0
     server GW1A {
         address = 10.49.143.11
         active = 1
         weight = 100
     }
     server GW1B {
         address = 10.49.143.12
         active = 1
         weight = 100
     }
}


Thank you in Advance
Christian Jacobsen