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Re: LVS/NAT config questions

To: Bill Michaelson <bill@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: LVS/NAT config questions
Cc: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Wensong Zhang <wensong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 21:39:15 +0800
Bill Michaelson wrote:
> 
> I have a LVS config using NAT.  A LVS front-ends a real web server on a
> private LAN.  I want to be able to use the web server directly from
> systems on the LAN.  Since the DNS points www references to the LVS IP,
> the HTTP requests arrive (via the LVS) at the real server OK, but the
> server tries to send the reply directly to the client on the LAN,
> instead of back thru the LVS to get masqueraded, because its routing
> table says that's the intelligent way to go.
> 
> OK, so I fooled it by adding a routing table entry on the real web server
> to ship stuff to a specific client via the LVS.  Now I can web surf from
> the client, but it sucks to have all traffic (besides web) from the server
> to that client go thru the LVS router.  Pity I can't but more detailed
> rules in the routing table on the client.
> 
> Another problem: I can't get run a browser on the real web server to see
> its own content.  Same problem - the reply packets from the server don't
> get masqueraded... In this case, they never even leave the box, I suppose,
> and there is no way to fudge it as I described above.
> 
> Now, I'm thinking of setting up an HTTP proxy in an "outside" box to work
> around this.
> 
> Is there a better way?
> 

Add more codes, to rewrite both destination and source addresses
together. :-)

Happy New Millennium!

Wensong

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