Maybe someone who's running DIRECT and all of the same internap IP's. can send me their lvs.cfg? I'm stumped. On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:34:15 -0500, Christopher Hawkins wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of >> isplist@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:26 PM >> To: linux-cluster >> Subject: LVS: Not as a gateway? >> >> From what I've seen, LVS can act as an NAT gateway, direct >> routing or tunneling. >> >> The LVS machines are already under NAT under the firewall's. >> >> I cannot change my web servers to point to LVS as this causes >> too many complications but, each server does have two >> Ethernet interfaces. >> >> I cannot really use NAT as the machines are already under NAT >> to my firewall's so, what's the best way of dealing with this >> without creating another sub networking within? >> >> Mike >> > > You would probably want direct routing. "Direct" means on the same network > as the director, and able to use the same gateway to the outside world. An > outside client would access services by sending a packet to your firewall, > which would forward it to the director, then the director would choose an > LVS "real server" to send it to for processing, and then the real server > that got it would reply "directly" to the client without further > intervention from the director machine. > > Chris > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
