By having two Directors and using Linux HA (High Availability) tools to monitor and take over. http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.failover.

By having two Directors and using Linux HA (High Availability) tools to monitor and take over. http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.failover.html#director_failure http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.failo... Also check out HAProxy http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ http://haproxy.1wt.eu/