On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:32:52PM -0500, Brooks, Jody wrote: > Bottom line: it works if client is run from non-real-server machines, > and half the time if client is run from a real server machine but the > other half of the time (when redirected to itself), it hangs. (I > recognize "half" is because I just have 2 real servers.) > Any clues as to why it won't work consistently when balanced back to > itself? http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.LVS-DR.html#realserver_as_client_in_LVS-DR I'm not sure whether or not it can be done without any problems. Are you using the redirect bits like in "method #2", here: http://people.redhat.com/lhh/piranha-direct-routing-howto.txt ? If so, if you used the other method, connections from the LVS real servers would simply connect locally. It would always work - but not be load-balanced via the director. > (Extra note: I say it works from non-real-server machines... not > completely true: doesn't work from the router machine, rtr1, as that > always goes back to itself, rtr1, ignoring the ipvs tables apparently as > ipvsadm -l never shows the connection in its statistics... Apparently > the virtual IP address being local short-circuits the ipvs table > operations). Correct. -- Lon -- Lon Hohberger - Software Engineer - Red Hat, Inc. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
