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Re: Relax source validation: VS/DR and VS/TUN as def gw

To: Joseph Mack <mack@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Relax source validation: VS/DR and VS/TUN as def gw
Cc: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Julian Anastasov <uli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 07:11:05 +0200 (EET)
        Hello,

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Joseph Mack wrote:

> The configure script is designed to be run by someone following a recipe,
> who doesn't understand everything that's going on and will not know what
> to do if the LVS doesn't work first time. Since it probably will be run
> many times between reboots to get everything right, it does something
> sensible if it detects a previous installation (most instructions are
> idempotent eg putting the VIP onto eth0:12 can be rerun as many times as
> you like).
> 
> You first run the script on the director and it does director things (like
> installing the VIP and running ipvsadm). Then you run it on the
> realservers where it looks to see if the VIP is already installed. If it
> is, the script issues a notice that it won't be able to check connection
> to the VIP on the director. If it sees the VIP on another device (eg tunl0
> and you are about to set up VS-DR), it will bring down the tunl0:VIP. If
> no device with the VIP is detected on the realserver, then the script will
> ping the VIP.
> 
> (maybe I should remove all devices with the VIP on the realserver
> at the beginning of the script).
> 
> I wanted to do as many checks as possible in the script. 
> 

        So, when this occurs, only with the patched (source validation)
kernel or anytime on Drector reboot, i.e. with unpatched kernel too.

        We can wait for other reports too.

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <uli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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