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Re: LVS behind a firewall. Direct Routing needed?

To: "Peter C. Nikolaidis" <pcnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: LVS behind a firewall. Direct Routing needed?
Cc: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:35:03 -0700
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 10:11:43AM -0400, Peter C. Nikolaidis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>     We presently have no firewall at our location, but are putting one up in
> a couple of days.  I'm trying to decide how our LVS fits into the equation.
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> Present Configuration:
> 
> ISP's Router    209.198.101.161
> 
> LVS pub IP      209.198.101.185
> LVS priv IP     192.168.1.1
> 
> VS1             192.168.1.11
> VS2             192.168.1.12
> VS3             192.168.1.13
> 
> Rest of our network 209.198.101.0
> ------------------------------------------
> Desired Configuration:
> 
> ISP's Router:     209.198.101.161
> Firewall          192.168.1.1
> 
> LVS pub IP        192.168.1.2?
> LVS priv IP       192.168.1.3?
> 
> VS1               192.168.1.11
> VS2               192.168.1.12
> VS3               192.168.1.13
> 
> Rest of our network 192.168.1.0
> ------------------------------------------
> 
>     Is this a task for direct routing as opposed to NAT?  If this isn't an
> option, then I guess I have to move the rest of our network or the virtual
> server side over to 192.168.0.0.
> 
>     Thoughts?

Possibly the easiest way to do this is to configure the 
Linux Directors to use LVS-NAT and have packet filtering
rules. Effectively making the Linux Director the firewall
and avoiding adding extra hops to the network.


-- 
Horms


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