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Re: Netfilter patch-o-matic connlimit

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Netfilter patch-o-matic connlimit
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:09:52 +0900
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:51:52PM -0400, Joseph Mack wrote:
> Stuart Clark wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there..
> > 
> > I have a LVS setup with two directors direct routing to 4 real
> > servers. 
> 
> I'm definitely not the person to reply to this one, but thought I'd
> pop up since no-one has replied yet. Hopefully Julian,
> Horms or Ratz will pop up and answer you. In the meantime read the HOWTO
> about Julian's nfct patch to LVS (and the previous - antefacto - code 
> that lead to it).
> 
> > I have been trying to use the 'connlimit' patch from
> > Netfilter patch-o-matic on the director to restrict the number of
> > concurrent connections coming into the VIP.  I have not been able to
> > get it working with the PREROUTING or FORWARD tables, 
> 
> I would have thought you could get it to work in PREROUTING, but LVS
> bypasses FORWARD, so rules in that chain won't work.

I would have thought so too.

> > and was wondering if is due to LVS that connlimit can not seem to track
> > connections?
> 
> LVS doesn't use conntrack, it's too slow. However I don't know why you
> can't get rules in PREROUTING to work

Stuart, LVS in 2.6 has its own connection limiting code, have
you taken a look at that?

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Horms
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