Pretty sure that will not work, if you want to do some sort of failover or load balancing you should look at Keepalived or Ultramonkey. Quoting Julian Hagenauer <chaosbringer@xxxxxx>: > Hi > > > If you packet would make it to the router and the router had this > configuration: > > - eth0: 192.168.1.0/24 > > - eth1: 192.168.1.0/24 > > the router cannot distinguish the subnets. > > > > Why so complicated. > eth0: 192.168.1.4 > eth1: 192.168.1.4 > > (Hostbased routing) would be enough. Sure the router can not distinguish > between the IPs, but he could distinguish between the MACs, so would it be > possible to do Masquerading based on MAC-Adresses? > > > But you'd not even get that far. > > When you send a packet from a client to the server and this server has same > IP > > as the client (thus src and dst IP are the same), then the packet wouldn't > > even make it to the router: it would be sent to itself. > > Mhm, i don't understand that. Let me explain my setup in greater detail: > > Server1---------| > | > | > | > Server2-------Router-------Client > | > | > DB > > I want that Server 1 and Server2 have the same IP, although only Server1 > should be accessible for clients. > The reason for that is, that i want do some kind of load-balancing. > The problem is, that both Servers need permanent access to the db, so the > router should somehow translate/masquerade the ip of the server2, so that > both servers can access the db at the same time. > > I know it sound weird :-) > > Sincerely, > Julian > thanks, -Nathan -http://www.netdigix.net
