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Re: Can we do user-id-based-switching on layer4 switch with lvs?

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Subject: Re: Can we do user-id-based-switching on layer4 switch with lvs?
From: Radu-Adrian Feurdean <raf@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 15:29:53 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 2 May 2001, john-dean wrote:

> 
> Dear All:
> 
> I ask for the help for the implementation:
> 
> A lvs box acts as a layer4 switch by LVS-NAT
> however there are two FTP real-servers with different 
> content exclusively (for some reason,they can not use
> role-based-control to handle in one server to see different content) .
> 
>      two users with the same IP(also from another NAT area and the IP is
>      dynamic)  must go to the two different FTP servers, The problem is: 
>  Can we use some identify or proxy method to dynamic change the lvs table  
>  to reflect the different path ?

Layer 4 stops at the TCP/UDP header. What you need is layer 5-7 switching. It
can be done with dedicated equipment (don't dare to reccomend anything) or
with a FTP proxy (see SuSe proxy-suite, latest version).

Radu-Adrian Feurdean
Brinbench Linux MVP
mailto: raf@xxxxxxxx
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