Re: can it be done?

[Malcolm Turnbull <Malcolm.Turnbull@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ray,

I might be missing something but why don't you just use LVS - DR ?

i.e.

Firewall
  |
  |
Switch
  |
  |_______________________
 |        |       |      |
 |        |       |      |
LVS-DR    RS1     RS2    etc...






Ray wrote:
> can it be done? and better yet, should it be done?
>
> just thought i should ask before i get too far into attempting to set it up.
> we have a few w2k webservers all at the same physical location, and i was 
> asked what it would take to cluster them and have them all serve up the same 
> set of webpages.  while googling for answers i wasn't able to find much of 
> anything for windows, but a lot for linux.
> since W2k doesn't to tunneling (as per something in the howto) and since NAT 
> can bottleneck the system, is it possible to setup an lvs-tun to an lvs-nat? 
> (or even lvs-dr to an lvs-nat)
>  ________       ________
> |        |     |        |
> |lvs-tun |- - -|lvs-tun*|
> |________|     |________|
>      |
>      |
>      |
>      +----------+
>      |          |
>      |          |
>  ____+___   ____+___
> |        | |        |
> |lvs-nat1| |lvs-nat2|
> |________| |________|
>
> and possibly on the same physical box? (without virtual pc software, or linux 
> in linux)
>  ________   ________
> |        | |        |
> |lvs-tun | |lvs-tun*|
> |lvs-nat1|-|lvs-nat2|
> |________| |________|
>
> *secondary director
>
> (and then from the lvs-nat to a set of w2k webservers)
>
>
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