On Thu, September 25, 2008 16:43, Barry Brimer wrote: > By service check, I mean the send or send program line which "expects" the > result of the "expect" line to determine that the service is "up". Okay, I guessed about right on that. > IME, ipvsadm does not show a host (even at startup) until it is successful > from the send/send program / expect tests. Good design, just not what I immediately guessed. I have found and fixed the problem with getting to the realservers, and am now happily distributing hundreds of thousands of requests across 4 realservers on two physical hosts, using two different operating systems. We'll call this a success. (Which means I've about completed the first phase of testing; second phase will be with workloads actually related to our intended goal. And after that, implementation!) Thanks for your help! -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info