On 09/09/08 18:47, Brian Ghidinelli wrote:
I'm trying to get a handle on whether or not it's possible to set up the
following on a redundant pair of boxes:
1. Stateful iptables firewall
2. LVS director (keepalived)
3. DNAT, SNAT and fwmarks
4. Connection synchronization for failover
You should easily be able to get SPI (1), NAT (3), and failover (4)
between multiple systems. However I'm not sure if you will get LVS (2)
to play properly in this or not. Traditionally LVS worked independently
/ completely out side of IPTables (1 and 3) and thus was not able to be
synchronized / failed over (4) between multiple boxen. This does not
mean that it can not be done, just that it is not going to be documented
in the usual locations if it is possible.
* Do the antefacto patches allow netfilter to access connections managed
by ipvs and support DNAT, SNAT and fwmarks used in the LVS configuration?
Based on the (below) referenced web page from Julian, yes to some extent
it does..
2. Setup conntrackd - will mirror the connection information
synchronized by keepalived at the netfilter level. Will conntrackd work
on RHEL/CentOS 5.2?
It is my (mis)understanding that keepalived does not do the
synchronization, rather just the monitoring of things. Conntrackd will
do the synchronization for NetFilter.
As far as whether or not conntrackd will work on RHEL/CentOS, it should.
I don't know of any reason you can't compile it and get it to work.
You may have to change some underlying libraries if versions are not
correct (I don't know b/c I run different distro(s)).
Are libntnetlink or libnetfilter_conntrack required? I have been
reading all day but don't yet follow how all of the pieces go together.
I don't know. If you read the documentation with conntrackd you should
be able to find out if libnetlink / libnetfilter are needed or not. I
would not be surprised if you need libnetfilter.
Grant. . . .
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