Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > can you use priority routing to let the real-server think that the VIP
> > is the main IP and for all processes to make their calls from the VIP?
>
> ip route add default gw uplink_router src ONLY_ONE_VIP
>
> This IP is selected as source when the processes don't
> specify specific source address in their higher layer protocol requests.
> Each route can use a preferred source value but only one.
>
> > How about instead if we configured the VIP as a hidden IP on eth0 and
> > put the RIP on a 2nd card say eth1?
>
> If eth1/hidden=1 this is working, you can put many VIPs on eth1.
> This setup assumes the broadcast ARP probes come from eth0. In this
^^^^^^^^^^
my setup or your setup?
I was proposing eth0=VIP (hidden). eth1=RIP (not hidden). I was assuming
that processes would use eth0 as source_addr. Is there a setup where
the process will call from the VIP rather than the RIP. This would
solve the identd problem too.
Joe
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