does Windows 2000 as the realserver work with lvs-dr? and how well does it
work with the arp issue?
i guess the reason why i didn't think of using lvs-dr is i've only read so
much of the howto and didn't notice anything about lvs-dr working with
windows (don't exactly see it at this point either, but its a lot to read....)
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:15, you wrote:
> 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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