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Re: Redhat6.1 and DR via the director itself.

To: Stephen Zander <gibreel@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Redhat6.1 and DR via the director itself.
Cc: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:49:14 -0700
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 04:39:02PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
> >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@xxxxxxx> writes:
>     Lars> Because with the fw-mark stuff, the load balancer doesn't
>     Lars> have to have that interface any more.
> 
> My urn for a stupid question then: if the director doesn't have an
> interface with VIP dound to it, how does it accept the packets at all?

If you are using the fwmark funcionality then packets that match the
ipchains rules are treated as part of the virtual service by IPVS.  There
is no need for a local interface, though the routers on the network must
know to route packets for the ip address or addresses covered by the
virtual service to the IPVS host.


-- 
Horms


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