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> This is not a problem because the realservers only gets incoming
> connections to the VIP. All outgoing connections go through the
> RIP. We have cisco routers and use DR without any problems.
I'm confused. It was my understanding that, when using DR, inbound
packets went to the director, who then resent them out onto the LAN
but with the MAC address of the real server, but that the destination
IP was still set to the VIP. The real server would then send packets
back directly to the client, without going through the director.
If what you say above is true, that would mean the client sends a packet
to the VIP, but gets a response back from a real server's RIP instead.
Forgive my ignorance of IP networking, but I thought a packet had to
have the same IP/port number pair in order to be recognized as part
of the same connection. If the response packets come from the RIP
instead of the VIP, how does the client know that they're really
part of the same connection?
--Greg
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