http://www.dancryer.com/2010/01/mysql-circular-replication

 This is part 1 of a three posts series:
 - MySQL Load-Balanced Cluster Guide – Part 1 - setting up the servers themselves and configuring MySQL replication.

 - MySQL Load-Balanced Cluster Guide – Part 2 - set up a script to monitor the status of your MySQL cluster nodes, which we’ll use in the next guide to set up our proxy.

 - MySQL Load-Balanced Cluster Guide – Part 3 - setting up the load balancer with HAProxy, using the monitoring scripts