LVS and ethernet Bridgeing

["Serge Sozonoff" <serge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,

Has anyone tried doing LVS-NAT with ethernet bridgeing?
I guess it would look like something in the diagram below
and would in theory produce better throughput then plain LVS-NAT... ?
maybe
Cisco LD's do this and I was curious if we could do the same on our
Linux LVS box.

Before I run off and try and build this, I would appreciate any
feedback.

Thanks, Serge


                               ________
                              |        |
                              | client |
                              |________|
                                  |
                                  |
                               (router)
                                  |10.0.0.1
                                  |
                                  |  VIP
                                  |10.0.0.2_________
                                  |------|          |
                                         | director | LVS NAT with
ethernet bridgeing
                                  |------|__________|
                                  |
                                  |
                                  |
                ------------------------------------
                |                 |                |
                |                 |                |
            10.0.0.3          10.0.0.4         10.0.0.5
          ______________    ______________    ______________
         |              |  |              |  |              |
         | realserver1  |  | realserver2  |  | realserver3  |
         |______________|  |______________|  |______________|

           gw 10.0.0.1       gw 10.0.0.1       gw 10.0.0.1