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Re: LVS and ethernet Bridgeing

To: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: LVS and ethernet Bridgeing
Cc: <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Radu-Adrian Feurdean <raf@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:27:53 +0200 (CEST)
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Joseph Mack wrote:

> Serge Sozonoff wrote:
>
> > I have had a look here http://bridge.sourceforge.net/devel/bridge-nf/
> > and their apears to be a kernel patch for 2.4.x
> > that does just this, bridging combined with netfilter/iptables
>
>
> I assume you know about the proxy arp method. I don't know
> about its compatibility with iptables.

It doesn't. It "forces" a gateway, in order to simplify the routing tables.
The machine that does proxy-arp behave as it was an explicit gateway.
Theoretically you can advertise it's address using ARP from other machine.

 Radu-Adrian Feurdean
mailto: raf @ chez.com
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