Hey there Graeme, Thanks for the input. As I suspected, but in truth, i'm just not that good with the lvs software. and I don't have the time to tinker with it :(
thanks again for your input! William On Jan 9, 2008 4:50 PM, Graeme Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William > > The prerequisite for NAT to work is that the return packets from the > realservers to clients go back through the director. > > In DR or TUN you can succeed without this, but the realservers _could_ route > back through the director - this just isn't very common. > > In your case, you could add a "geographic" server to your NAT setup if and > only if that server sends all its' responses back through the director. That > may, but most likely won't, be possible. > > Note that your understanding of things as "realservers having to see the CIP" > is a bit wrong - they have to have a route to the clients, and it has to go > the right way for the connection to succeed. That is to say that the two ends > of the connection - the client and the LVS, however configured - need to > complete the three way handshake to establish the connection. > > Graeme. > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] > Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users > -- --------------- Morpheus: After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
