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At 02:58 PM 9/9/2002, you wrote:
I am wanting to run RedHat 7.3 on the load-balancers along with the
Ultramonkey 2.0 RPMs. The exception would be getting a proper kernel
(preferably a RedHat-released ones -OR- close to it) on the load balancers
(LB1, LB2). I am wondering who else is successfully running RedHat 7.3 on
the balancers and what package/software sets they are running.
The bottom line here is that Red Hat 7.3 has the required LVS patches
installed already. All that is really needed to get the kernel and
binaries needed to run LVS is to build ipvadm from the Red Hat kernel
source RPM. So after you install the kernel-source RPM (rpm -Uvh
kernel-source-2.4.18-10.rpm) change to the ipvsadm dir in the source and
run "make", then "make install". After that you can follow the HOW-TO
documentation (after kernel patching & configuration) for the proper setup
for your situation.
To recap:
1. Install corrasponding Red Hat kernel source for your currently
installed kernel
rpm -Uvh kernel-source-2.4.18-10.rpm
2. Build and install ipvsadm.
cd /usr/src/linux-2.4/net/ipv4/ipvs/ipvsadm
make
make install
You should be good to go. The only caveat I have is that you will NOT be
running the most currently released Netfilter (ipvs) and ipvsadm, just what
Red Hat has decided is stable with their other patches. Currently that's
ipvsadm v1.20 2001/11/04 (compiled with popt and IPVS v0.9.7) I would
suggest getting it working with the above described versions and HOW-TO,
then decide if you require the absolute newest versions.
The debate of which version is critical (and for what reasons) is beyond
the scope of this small reply. If there is no serious performance
improvement, security hole plugged, or feature you require, why change
it? For me this version is running well, and I haven't seen anything
compelling enough in the change log for ipvs or ipvsadm to make me brave
the pain of change.
Hope this helps.
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Bobby Johns
bobbyj@xxxxxxxxx
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