I was having this exact same issue and was also not seeing any packets coming to 443 on the real server with tcpdump nor being initiated on the director. My log below
DEBUG2: check_http: https://192.168.2.146:443/ <https://192.168.2.146/> is down DEBUG2: Checking negotiate: real server=negotiate:https:tcp:192.168.2.146:0 :convertglobal.com::1:gate:\/:Apache\ Tomcat (virtual=tcp:192.168.2.7:443) DEBUG2: check_http: url="https://192.168.2.146:443/ <https://192.168.2.146/>" virtualhost="convertglobal.com" LWP::UserAgent::new: () DEBUG2: Starting Check DEBUG2: Starting HTTP/HTTPS LWP::UserAgent::request: () LWP::UserAgent::send_request: GET https://192.168.2.146:443/<https://192.168.2.146/> LWP::UserAgent::_need_proxy: Not proxied LWP::Protocol::http::request: () LWP::UserAgent::request: Simple response: Internal Server Error DEBUG2: Finished HTTP/HTTPS Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/sbin/ldirectord line 2445. DEBUG2: SSL-Cipher: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/sbin/ldirectord line 2447. DEBUG2: SSL-Cert-Subject: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/sbin/ldirectord line 2449. DEBUG2: SSL-Cert-Issuer: DEBUG2: Disabled real server=negotiate:https:tcp:192.168.2.146:0 :convertglobal.com::1:gate:\/:Apache\ Tomcat (virtual=tcp:192.168.2.7:443) DEBUG3: Headers Content-Type: text/plain Client-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:39:13 GMT Client-Warning: Internal response DEBUG2: check_http: https://192.168.2.146:443/ <https://192.168.2.146/> is down Upon further investigation, I didn't have perl-Crypt-SSLeay installed. Possibly it's related if you aren't seeing traffic exiting the director on 443 to actually perform the health checks. c _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - lvs-users@LinuxVirtualServer.org Send requests to lvs-users-requ...@linuxvirtualserver.org or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users