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Re: LVS and ethernet Bridgeing

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: LVS and ethernet Bridgeing
Cc: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, serge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:42:37 -0400
Serge Sozonoff wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>         > That was my original idea. From what Horms said, it won't fly,
> since
>         >the director sees all the packets anyhow.
> 
> Thats OK isn't it? Unlike LVD-DR 

have we changed from talking about VS-DR?

> each Realserver has it own unique IP
> and does not share one with the LD, 

yes but with VS-DR the RIP is only used by ipvsadm when it first runs,
to find the MAC address of the NIC on the realserver. After that the RIP 
has no purpose at all.

> packets are delivered to the real
> servers through NAT done by the LD.

no. The same packet with unchanged dst_addr is pushed out of the director
to the realserver. No NAT. 

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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