On Wed, 2 May 2001, Francis Corouge wrote:
> Here we use qmail without any problem, just setting a redirection with
> ipvadm :
>
> ipvsadm -A -t xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:25
> ipvsadm -a -t xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:25 -R yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
>
> ipvsadm -A -t xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:110
> ipvsadm -a -t xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:110 -R yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
>
> where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the director and yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
> the address of a realserver running qmail over tcpserver.
> Another point is that we use NFS to share the users mailboxes between each
> realserver.
I have a question:
if such a service runs on a single realserver, is it necessary
to employ ipvsadm for it? There is no need for load-balancing, after all.
Couldn't it be simply done with ipchains, and if yes, how would
the commond precisely be?
Alois
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