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Re: carp and dead daemon

Subject: Re: carp and dead daemon
From: "matthew sporleder" <msporleder@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:54:36 UTC
Newsgroups: fa.netbsd.tech.net

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello
>
> CARP is nice for load ballancing firewalls, but for servers, there is a
> small concern: if a daemon dies, the machine still answers ARP on the
> shared address, but it will refuse service requests.
>
> Is there an efficient way to automatically shutdown carp interfaces when
> a daemon dies or a TCP port quits the LISTEN state? I mean without
> polling the service. It seems kqueue can give the info, but is there a
> tool for using it?
>


Have you considered using something like pen (pkgsrc /net/pen) for
your services instead?

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