On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Andy Ashley wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > My understanding was that I was using LVS-NAT, not LVS-DR.. > > If I use -g (gateway/DR) the load balancer does not attempt to forward > the packets. I get "No route to host" on the client using this method. > The load balancer just gets requests from the client and nothing > happens, no replies or forwards.
look in the mini-HOWTO on setting up LVS-DR > "I also have the following SNAT rule to change the source address of > packets leaving the load balancer > > why?" > > Because, as I understand it, if the realserver attempts to initiate the > return connection directly (bypassing the loadbalancer), the client will > assume this is a new tcp connection, not the reply to it's original > request. Perhaps Im missing something.. yes. look some more in the HOWTOs > "can you make the director the default gw for the packets > from the RIPs?" > > Possibly. But I had an idea that a the realservers would not take a > default gateway located on another LAN (as the loadbalancer is). > I would like to avoid this if possible as I dont know if the servers > (Windows 2003 Server) or firewall (Cisco ASA5510) can do this.. to get LVS-NAT to work you'll have to do it. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
