Dan Trainor wrote: > Hello, all - > > I just had a situation that really, really bothered me. > > In the sparse documentation that I could find regarding the assignment > of subnet masks to Virtual IPs, the synopsis was that the lease specific > the netmask was for that Virtual IP, the less of a chance that the Real > Server (In this case, Win2k3R2 w/IIS) would be confused with outbound > routing. > > The situation was basically that I could see requests coming inbound (as > indicated by ipvsadmin -L --connection) nothing the SYN_RECV flag, but > nothing outbound. This led be to believe that simply put, the virtual > IP was not working. > > To add some more kerosene to the fire, the request was coming from an IP > in the same class A subnet as my Virtual IP. As that relates to the > issue, I do now understand. > > However, what I'm still a bit fuzzy on is exactly how the Virtual IP > netmask relates to the Virtual IP. In the general sense I take away > from the picture that it may not matter, but it just might. Is this due > to the type of Real Server and how it handles connections? The subnet > from which the requests originates? I'm confused. > > Thanks again for your time, I sincerely appreciate it. > > Thanks > -dant
Hi - Duh. It might also be relevant to point out that I was using a Virtual IP netmask of /16 as to be the least specific - in the beginning. I solved the problem by assigning a netmask of /25 - which all the other IPs in the block have, of course. Thanks -dant _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
