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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Bill Omer wrote:
no-one's thought it worth their time to have it working
perfectly.
Wow... how very openly honest :)
time is hard to find for people who are working at this as a
hobby. What gets worked on is usually what someone thinks is
neat, rather than what would be useful to the user. This is
not a commercial operation. LVS only exists because someone
thought it was fun. There are other outputs that you found
that tell you what you want to know. The ActiveConn etc
output was the first one for LVS and it was just used to
tell you if LVS was working at all. No-one thought of doing
anything more to it. ipvsadm has been expanded considerably
in the last few years to give more info on what the director
is doing.
So would all of the connections show up correctly if I
were to switch to LVS-NAT?
yes (I haven't checked personally myself recently, but it's
supposed to).
And have you heard of anyone else using LVS-NAT in a
sitution like mine?
working at near wire speed?
People who install LVS's are closed mouthed about what
they're doing. So the short answer is no. Presumably they're
using them to make money and don't want anyone else knowing
about it. We've given up asking people for specs and
performance data. The last big datapoint was finding you
could saturate 100Mbps ethernet with a 400MHz director. That
was when you could first buy 400MHz machines. With hardware
increasing speed all the time, no-one cares anymore what you
could do with hardware a year ago, so we'd be spend all our
time collecting data to throw away a year later.
none of your ssh connections are terminating at the
director. The realservers are doing all the
encrypting/decrypting etc. The director is just a router
with funny rules. It's not working as hard as the
realservers.
I'm wondering how much it would tax the director.
I think it's reasonable to give it a try (and let use know
how it goes).
Joe
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