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Re: Totally lost

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, marcus_human@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Totally lost
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 08:08:51 -0500
Marcus Human wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a microsoft exchange
> mail server on the inside that needs to communicate both internally and
> externally, in order for my clients internal to connect to it I need to give
> it an internal address.

A NIC can have multiple addresses. Can you put an internal and an external IP 
onto
your mailserver machine?

 This leave me with the problem that mail from
> outside can not be delivered to it since it have no registered IP address
> anymore. Am I on the right track to use LVS and ipvsadm to create a virtual
> IP(My registerd IP) on the outside so that the rest of the world can see it.
> This IP(registered) must then be translated with ipvsadm to deliver the mail
> to my mail server internally with the private address. 

If you only have one public IP allocated, then you will have to have the VIP
serve both your web and mail functions. If you have 2 IPs, then you can use one
for the VIP of your LVS and another for your mail machine.

Joe



-- 
Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, SAIC contractor 
to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA


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