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Re: [LVS - NAT] alternatives

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Roberto Nibali <ratz@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [LVS - NAT] alternatives
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:49:28 -0400
Roberto Nibali wrote:

> > I think that the HOWTO does a good job of pointing out the advantages of DR
> > and TUN, but it tends to give people the impression that they are superior
> > and that NAT is inferior, which it really isn't. DR and TUN are handy -if 
> > you
> > need them-. Do you need them? Probably not.
> 
> Good point for the howto. Indeed, with nowadays Internet technology and
> computer technology we should not give the reader the impression that as
> soon as he wants to load balance a moderately surfed site he needs to

I do include info about the 2.4 NAT being close to DR.

http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/Joseph.Mack/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO-12.html#ss12.12

I didn't realise that I hadn't formatted some of it.

This info should probably be moved to the discussion of the relative
advantages of the forwarding methods.

Joe

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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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