Routing outgoing traffic

[InterNetX - Jürgen Gotteswinter]

Hi,

perhaps you should checkout keepalived as loadbalancing/failover solution.

www.keepalived.org

regards

Juergen

Harish Sundararaj wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I'm newbie to this world of webservers/loadbalancing... so forgive me
> if I talk anything that makes no sense
> So my question is there any option where I can say route all the
> outgoing traffic directly to the client(destination)?
> Basically the current setup is this way:
>
> 1) All incoming traffic comes through one manchine where nginx acts as
> the load balancer and also
> a web server for the static content serving
>
> 2)  For Dynamic content the requests are passed on to the backend
> apache webservers... where the requests
> are processed and sent back to nginx which is routed to the
> client(browser).
>
> Now in step 2) I want all the outgoing traffic to be routed to the
> client(browser) directly rather than through nginx...
>
> I remember it was possible in LVS
> Link:http://www.ultramonkey.org/3/topologies/hc-ha-lb-overview.html
>
> Additionally I have one more question, how is a failover for nginx
> managed? heartbeat?
> or is there an inbuilt module to do that?
>
> Once I'm done I will post my configuration for you guys to  comment
> upon...
>
> Regards
> Harish