cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking chapter.sgml

[Christian Brueffer]

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 for
> >   fail over cases.
> >
> >   Sponsored by:   AiNET Corp.
> >
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.390     +136 -0   
> > doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 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)  ...
> 
> >This example will provide fail over support
> >for three hosts, both with unique <acronym>IP</acronym>
> >addresses and provide the same web content.
> 
> Three or two hosts?
> 

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.
> 
> 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?
> 

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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