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Re: LVS for Database, App Server & mail

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: LVS for Database, App Server & mail
From: Alois Treindl <alois@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 13:16:59 +0200 (METDST)
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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