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Re: [lvs-users] Alias on lo blocks everything

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Alias on lo blocks everything
From: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:17:05 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Pieter Temmerman wrote:

>
>> Simply to have the services running on that server listen to it. You
>> cannot bind a service to an IP address that is not set up on that server
>> and the packets are addressed to the VIP.
>
> Good point.
> Although my reasoning was the following:
>
> When a request arrives on the director, it decides to which (lets say
> Apache) server the request should be "forwarded". It sends an ARP
> request for the real server

no. read the howto on how LVS-DR works

Joe

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