A project that requires a 'heartbeat' type application

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 10), Derrick MacPherson said:
> I've been asked to go ahead with a project that will require me to build
> several machines, 2 of which are to be used for mysql, one being 'live'
> and writeable, the other being a read only backup server. The developers
> are Linux people that are used to using an application called hearbeat
> that does failover, and I am wondering what I can do in freebsd that is
> similiar, if my mysql live server dies, the backup server takes over. I
> browsed ports but there's so much there I may be missing something. 

heartbeat-1.2.1 builds cleanly on FreeBSD boxes and works fine.  1.2.2
looks like it builds but doesn't fail the IP over correctly.  I am
currently using it to flip between two mysql servers doing
master-master replication.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com