> > Hi all, > > > > I've been scouring the newsgroups without luck. I need to turn off > > ARP responses on the loopback interface(s). I'm trying to > > load balance > > a bunch of RedHat 8.0 servers via IBM's EdgeServer. They all > > need to have the > > same cluster IP address defined in their loopback interfaces, but none > > should reply to arp requests for that IP. > > 3 steps: > > (a) Assign IP addresses to loopback aliases (lo:1, lo:2, ...). Make sure > they have a 32-bit subnet-mask (255.255.255.255) > (b) echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/hidden > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo.x/hidden > > > But the file doesn't exist, and I can't create it. > > Hmmm.. thats suspect. What is there in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 then? > > Dheeraj > Here's what's in my conf and conf/all directories (this is RedHat 8.0): [root@bhcebiz2 ipv4]# ls -l /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 1 17:54 all dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 1 17:54 default dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 1 17:54 eth0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 1 17:54 lo [root@bhcebiz2 ipv4]# ls -l /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 accept_redirects -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 accept_source_route -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 arp_filter -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 bootp_relay -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 forwarding -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 log_martians -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 mc_forwarding -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 medium_id -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 proxy_arp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 rp_filter -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 secure_redirects -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 send_redirects -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 shared_media -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 17:56 tag Thanks to everyone that's replied so far... Woody pop3.tranquility.net - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
