Fail over mechanism // Ip forwarder

[Cameron Simpson]

On 17Feb2010 15:30, Bob Sauvage <Bob.sauvage at gmx.fr> wrote:
|  I have a web application server (tomcat, jboss,...) and I want to put
| in place a simple fail over mechanism. I see that as a " ip forwarders".
|  I mean when a client want to acces our application, he arrives on
| a server who redirects him on the ip address of the web application
| server and if this server is down, it redirects him on the backup web
| application server.

We use HAProxy for this, extensively. It's good.
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