LVS
lvs-users
Google
 
Web LinuxVirtualServer.org

RE: Routing weirdness

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Routing weirdness
From: John Reuning <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:14:14 -0400
Yes, capturing traffic sounds like the best troubleshooting tool for
this situation.

Just a quick clarification about the gratuitous arp issue during
failover.  The problem isn't with the layer-2 switches, it's with the
next-hop router (the external default gateway for the LVS directors). 
It's common behavior with Cisco routers to update their arp cache table
in response to source-generated packets but not in response to
gratuitous arp packets.

Thanks,

-jrr

> Heartbeat sends out quite a few gratuitous arps.  They are very good about
> it.  Only a misconfigured switch or an extremely crappy switch wouldn't
> respond to the arps that heartbeat sends out.  Another possibility here is a
> firewall or misconfigured linux is blocking the arps.

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>