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Re: passive mode ftp on kernel 2.2.19

To: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: passive mode ftp on kernel 2.2.19
Cc: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 09:33:31 -0400
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

-- 
Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA


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