could someone please let me know if this setup will work for lvs-dr? I use pulse / piranha / ipvsadm I just can't get anything to work. and I'm thinking maybe the GW's are what causing the problems. I got help with regards to the forwarding bit, and not to use lo:0 but nothing seems to work. LVS: eth0: 192.168.2.1 / gw: 192.168.2.10 (CIP, direct connect to eth0) eth0:1 192.168.2.100 (VIP) eth1: 192.168.3.1 / gw 192.168.2.1 eth2: 192.168.0.111 / gw 192.168.2.1 sysctl.conf: ipv4.ip_forward = 1 RS#1 IP: 192.168.3.10 GW: 192.168.3.1 sysctl.conf: ipv4.ip_forward = 1 sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_ignore = 1 sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_announce = 2 sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore = 1 sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 2 RS#2 IP: 192.168.0.10 GW: 192.168.0.1 sysctl.conf: ipv4.ip_forward = 1 sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_ignore = 1 sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_announce = 2 sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore = 1 sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 2 -- --------------- Morpheus: After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster