I 4get too much those days, this post is just to remember me how and where i got rhel (this should apply for Centos 5 too) packages and how to configure it quickly 🙂 i used dag.wieers.com(for fuse and sshfs-fuse) and atrpms.net (for fuse-kmodl) packages. [root@m1 ~]# uname -a Linux m1 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 #1 SMP Tue […]

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My goal by using DRBD as Primary/Primary with GFS is to load balance a http service, my servers looks like the following:
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Load Balancer – GFS – Primary-Primary

i use the GFS partition as document-root for my webserver (Apache).
maybe it’s better to use SAN as storage but it’s so expensive, another solutions maybe iSCSI or GNBD but also it’s need more servers which needs extra money 🙂
maybe in the future i will implement it using SAN, iSCSI or GNBD but for now it’s good with DRBD and GFS as two nodes with load balancer and it’s fast enough.

for testing and preparing this quick howto i used Xen to create 2 virtual machine and centos 5 as OS. the partition that i want to use as GFS is named xvdb1, make sure that your partition don’t contain any data you want (it will be destroyed)
to destroy the partition i used

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i still maintain this, it’s not complete

Kerberos is a network authentication protocol created by MIT, it’s uses symmetric-key cryptography to authenticate users to network services.
from wikipedia: “Kerberos uses as its basis the Needham-Schroeder protocol. It makes use of a trusted third party, termed a key distribution center (KDC), which consists of two logically separate parts: an Authentication Server (AS) and a Ticket Granting Server (TGS). Kerberos works on the basis of “tickets” which serve to prove the identity of users.

The KDC maintains a database of

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