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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Julian Anastasov wrote:
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> On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Joseph Mack wrote:
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> > New solution: hard wire the MAC address of the VIP on the director
> > into the router's arp table. In my case I don't have a router, and
> > my client connects directly to the director. I have a file /etc/ethers
> > with the entry
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> This is a good solution but for configurations with one standalone
> LVS box. To support other LVS boxes which can take control when the main
> LVS box is down You have to change /etc/ethers each time in the router and
> in the all possible hosts on the LAN which can talk to VIP.
In solaris you can set the hardware address of a NIC (although I forget
how much lattutude you have to change things here). Can you do this in
Linux?
Would a gratuitous arp from the directors flush a permanent entry in the
router? (How do you force a gratuitous arp anyhow?)
Joe
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